Which Greek poem describes Pandora as a punishment for Prometheus’s theft of fire?

Works and Days describes Pandora as a punishment for Prometheus’s theft of fire.

Hesiod’s Works and Days presents a linked sequence: Prometheus deceives Zeus, steals fire for humans, and Zeus orders the gods to create Pandora. She is then sent to Epimetheus with a sealed container whose contents bring suffering into the world.

The poem is not an adventure epic like Homer’s Iliad or Odyssey. It is a didactic work concerned with justice, hard work, farming, and the conditions of human life. The Pandora episode supports that wider theme by explaining why mortals must endure hardship rather than live in an effortless golden age.

Hesiod’s Theogony also contains related material about Pandora and the punishment of humanity, but Works and Days gives the fullest surviving version of the jar episode. That distinction makes the poem the standard source for the familiar narrative.