Hesiod wrote both surviving early accounts of Pandora’s myth.
The two works are the Theogony and Works and Days, poems generally dated to the early Archaic period of Greek literature. The Theogony focuses on the genealogy and origins of the gods, including the making of Pandora. Works and Days gives a more developed account of her arrival and the release of evils from the jar.
Hesiod’s treatment is especially important because no single surviving Homeric poem provides the standard Pandora story. Modern readers often associate Pandora with Greek mythology generally, but the earliest literary evidence for the familiar narrative comes from Hesiodic poetry.
The two accounts are related but not identical. The Theogony emphasizes divine creation and the gods’ gifts, while Works and Days connects Pandora more directly to Prometheus, fire, and the human experience of labor and suffering. Later writers and translators shaped the story further.