Which Greek poem first names Pandora as the woman whose vessel releases human troubles?

Works and Days is the Greek poem that first names Pandora in the surviving literary tradition.

The poem is attributed to Hesiod and is usually dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. It combines advice about farming, justice, labor, and moral conduct with myths explaining why human life includes hardship. Pandora appears in the poem’s account of Zeus’s punishment after Prometheus steals fire.

Hesiod also discusses Pandora in the Theogony, but Works and Days provides the fuller narrative of her creation, her arrival among humans, and the opening of the vessel. That distinction matters because the two poems present related but not identical details.

The title is sometimes written as Works and Days or Works & Days in English. It is not an epic poem about heroic warfare like the Iliad, and it is not a travel narrative like the Odyssey. Its practical and moral purpose shapes the way the Pandora story is told.