Which Hesiod poem contains the fullest surviving account of Pandora’s jar?

Hesiod’s poem Works and Days contains the fullest surviving account of Pandora’s jar. The poem presents Pandora as part of Zeus’s punishment of humanity and describes her opening the storage vessel that contains harmful troubles.

Works and Days is a didactic Greek poem concerned with labor, farming, justice, and proper conduct. The Pandora episode appears in its discussion of the human condition, helping explain why suffering and hardship exist in the world. The poem is traditionally dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE, although its exact date remains uncertain.

Hesiod also describes Pandora in Theogony, but that poem gives a briefer account. The Theogony passage focuses more on the gods’ actions and Pandora’s creation than on the detailed sequence involving the jar and its contents.

The poem’s title is often written in English with an ampersand as Works and Days. It is not a play or a mythological prose story, but a long hexameter poem attributed to Hesiod.