Which Greek literary work gives the fullest ancient account of Pandora’s creation?

Works and Days gives the fullest ancient account of Pandora’s creation.

Works and Days is a poem traditionally attributed to Hesiod and generally dated to the archaic period of Greek literature. Its subject matter ranges from agricultural advice and seasonal work to justice, labor, and mythic explanations of human suffering. The Pandora episode appears within that broader moral and practical framework.

The poem describes Zeus’s response to Prometheus and introduces Pandora as a divinely fashioned woman. It also records the gifts and qualities supplied by the gods, making it more detailed for Pandora’s creation than Hesiod’s Theogony. The familiar “box” wording belongs to later tradition; the ancient poem describes a storage vessel.

Readers often associate Pandora equally with Theogony because both works are attributed to Hesiod. Theogony mentions Pandora but does not provide the same extended narrative. The Iliad and Odyssey, meanwhile, are Homeric epics and are not the principal ancient source for this story.