Hesiod’s Theogony gives another account of Pandora’s creation besides Works and Days.
Hesiod was an early Greek poet whose two major surviving works, Theogony and Works and Days, preserve important versions of the Pandora tradition. Theogony focuses primarily on the origins and genealogies of the gods, while Works and Days places Pandora within a broader explanation of human labor, suffering, and social order.
The two poems do not present identical amounts of detail. Works and Days provides the fuller narrative about Pandora and the container, whereas Theogony refers to her creation in a more compressed account. Reading both poems helps explain why summaries of the myth sometimes differ in emphasis.
Theogony is also a major source for Greek divine genealogies, including the succession from Uranus and Cronus to Zeus. It should not be confused with Homer’s Iliad or Odyssey, which have different subjects and do not provide Hesiod’s creation narrative.