Hesiod’s *Theogony* mentions Pandora but does not narrate the jar opening in detail. The poem is a genealogy of the gods, describing divine origins and relationships rather than offering the extended moral story found in *Works and Days*.
In *Theogony*, Pandora appears in a brief reference connected with Zeus’s punishment of humanity after Prometheus’s theft of fire. The poem identifies the woman and the consequences of the gods’ scheme, but it does not provide the full sequence of gifts and escaping evils familiar from later retellings.
*Works and Days* is therefore the key ancient source for the complete Pandora narrative. Both poems are attributed to Hesiod and are usually dated to the archaic period. Readers sometimes attribute the whole story to *Theogony* because it is more famous as a mythological catalogue, but its Pandora passage is comparatively compressed.