Which Hesiod poem describes Zeus sending Pandora to punish humanity?

Works and Days describes Zeus sending Pandora to punish humanity. Hesiod’s poem connects her arrival with the punishment that follows Prometheus’s theft of fire.

The work is a didactic Greek poem concerned with labor, justice, agriculture, and relations between humans and the gods. Its Pandora passage appears in a broader discussion of why human life includes toil and suffering. The story is therefore part of an explanation about the difficult conditions of mortal existence.

Hesiod’s Theogony also refers to the creation of woman, but Works and Days gives the fullest surviving narrative of Pandora’s creation, marriage to Epimetheus, and opening of the vessel. The Iliad and Odyssey are different Homeric epics and do not supply this central Pandora episode.

The poem’s title is sometimes written as Works and Days or Work and Days in English. “Works and Days” is the standard English title and the clearest answer for identifying the source of the punishment story.