Works and Days contains the fullest surviving account of Pandora opening her container.
The poem is attributed to Hesiod and combines practical advice about farming and seafaring with moral, religious, and mythological material. Its Pandora episode explains how Zeus arranged for a divinely created woman to enter human society and how the opening of her container released evils.
The Theogony, another work attributed to Hesiod, also refers to Pandora’s creation but gives less of the narrative. Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are foundational Greek epics, yet they are not the principal surviving source for the Pandora episode. Identifying Works and Days matters because later summaries sometimes blend Hesiod’s account with later artistic and literary embellishments.