Hesiod’s Theogony gives the shorter creation account of Pandora and presents her as a source of human misery.
The poem is primarily a genealogy and history of the Greek gods, tracing divine origins from primordial beings through the Olympians. Pandora appears near the end of the work in a compact passage connected with Zeus’s conflict with Prometheus and the punishment of humanity.
Compared with Works and Days, Theogony provides fewer narrative details about Pandora’s gifts and the vessel. Works and Days expands the episode and makes it part of a wider meditation on why human life requires labor and contains suffering.
The word theogony means a generation or origin of gods. The poem is therefore not simply a collection of myths about individual heroes. Its larger purpose is to organize the divine world and explain how Zeus became its dominant ruler.