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

Works and Days contains the fullest surviving ancient account of Pandora’s container.

The poem is attributed to Hesiod, an early Greek poet traditionally dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. It combines practical advice about farming and justice with mythological explanations, including the stories of Prometheus, Pandora, and the successive ages of humanity.

In Works and Days, Pandora is fashioned by the gods and sent to Epimetheus after Prometheus takes fire for humans. Her container holds the troubles that later spread through the world. The poem calls the container a pithos, which is why scholars distinguish the ancient jar from the later English “box.”

Hesiod also mentions Pandora in the Theogony, but that poem gives a shorter account and does not provide the same extended narrative of the jar. The Iliad and Odyssey are attributed to Homer and are not the primary ancient sources for this episode.