Which Hesiod poem tells the fullest surviving story of Pandora and her jar?

Works and Days tells the fullest surviving story of Pandora and her jar. The poem is attributed to Hesiod, an early Greek poet traditionally dated to the eighth or seventh century BCE.

Works and Days is a didactic poem combining farming advice, moral instruction, legal concerns, and mythic narratives. Pandora’s creation and the release of evils appear within its discussion of human labor and the difficult conditions of mortal life.

Hesiod also mentions Pandora in the Theogony, but that poem gives a shorter account connected with the punishment of Prometheus and humanity. The two poems are therefore related sources, yet Works and Days supplies the detailed jar episode and the explanation of hope remaining inside.

The Iliad and Odyssey are Homeric epics and do not provide the standard Pandora narrative. Identifying the poem matters because later summaries often blend Hesiod’s two accounts with Roman and modern adaptations.