Which Greek poem by Hesiod describes Pandora as part of Zeus’s punishment of humanity?

Hesiod’s poem Works and Days describes Pandora as part of Zeus’s punishment of humanity. The poem presents the story while discussing labor, justice, farming, and the difficult conditions of human life.

Works and Days is one of the two major surviving poems associated with Hesiod. Its Pandora episode follows the conflict involving Prometheus, who deceives Zeus and later steals fire for humans. Zeus responds by having Pandora fashioned and sent to Epimetheus, after which the jar’s contents spread suffering.

Hesiod also mentions Pandora in the Theogony, but the two poems do not serve exactly the same purpose. Works and Days gives the fuller narrative of the container and the release of evils. The Theogony provides a shorter account within its broader account of the gods and the ordering of the cosmos.

The poem is generally dated to around the late eighth or early seventh century BCE, although exact dating remains debated. Its mixture of myth and practical advice makes it an important source for early Greek ideas about work, justice, and mortality.