Works and Days contains the account of Pandora’s creation as part of Zeus’s punishment.
Works and Days is an ancient Greek didactic poem traditionally attributed to Hesiod. Its subjects include farming, justice, labor, proper conduct, and the difficult conditions of human life. The Pandora story appears within an explanation of why suffering and hardship exist among humans.
The poem links Pandora to Prometheus’s theft of fire. Zeus responds by having a woman fashioned and adorned with divine gifts, then sends her to Epimetheus. When Pandora opens the vessel, evils spread through the world, while hope remains inside.
Theogony, another poem attributed to Hesiod, also mentions Pandora-related material but does not present the same full narrative in the same way. The surviving Pandora story most readers recognize is therefore especially associated with Works and Days, rather than with Homer’s epics.