Theogony is the Greek work that mentions Pandora with a different emphasis from Hesiod’s fuller account in Works and Days.
Theogony is a poem attributed to Hesiod that describes the origins and genealogies of the gods. Its discussion of Pandora is shorter and focuses on the creation of woman as part of Zeus’s response to Prometheus and humanity. Works and Days develops the episode further, including Pandora’s marriage to Epimetheus and the opening of the container.
The difference illustrates how ancient myths could be adapted to a poem’s purpose. Theogony is primarily concerned with divine origins and succession, while Works and Days addresses justice, labor, agriculture, and human hardship. The same figure can therefore carry different narrative weight in two works by the same poet.
Theogony should not be confused with the Iliad or Odyssey, the Homeric epics, or the Argonautica, a later heroic poem associated with Apollonius Rhodius. None is the specific Hesiodic work that provides this shorter Pandora reference.