Which ancient Greek work, besides Works and Days, contains Hesiod’s account of Pandora?

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Besides Works and Days, Hesiod’s account of Pandora appears in Theogony.

Theogony is Hesiod’s poem about the origins and genealogy of the gods. Its treatment of Pandora is briefer than the fuller narrative in Works and Days, but it connects her creation with Zeus’s punishment of humanity after the conflict involving Prometheus.

Works and Days supplies the better-known sequence: Pandora is fashioned, receives gifts, enters the household of Epimetheus, and opens the container holding troubles. Theogony provides an earlier or parallel poetic formulation of the same mythic complex, depending on how scholars date and relate the poems.

Readers often associate Pandora exclusively with Works and Days because that poem contains the most developed version. Theogony is nevertheless important evidence that the story circulated in more than one Hesiodic context.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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