Which Hesiod poem describes Pandora’s creation and the opening of her jar in detail?

Works and Days is the Hesiod poem that describes Pandora’s creation and the opening of her jar in detail.

The poem is a mixture of moral advice, farming instruction, myths, and reflections on justice. Its Pandora episode appears in the section explaining why human life includes labor and suffering. Zeus’s punishment follows Prometheus’s theft of fire, and Pandora’s jar becomes the vehicle through which destructive forces enter human existence.

Hesiod also mentions Pandora in the Theogony, but Works and Days provides the fuller narrative of her creation, marriage to Epimetheus, and the jar episode. The Theogony is primarily a genealogical account of the gods and their succession, so its treatment is briefer.

The poem is generally dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. It is written in dactylic hexameter, the same meter associated with Homeric epic, and is one of the foundational surviving works of archaic Greek literature.