Which Hesiod poem tells the story of Pandora and the release of troubles?

Hesiod’s poem Works and Days tells the story of Pandora and the release of troubles.

Works and Days is an archaic Greek poem combining practical advice about farming and seafaring with myths about justice, labor, and human decline. Its Pandora episode explains why suffering and hardship affect human life after the gods send a specially created woman to Epimetheus.

Hesiod also discusses Pandora in the Theogony, but the fuller narrative of the container and the evils inside appears in Works and Days. This distinction matters because modern retellings often blend details from both poems with later interpretations.

The poem is usually dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. It is written in dactylic hexameter, the same meter used by Homeric epic. Works and Days is therefore both a mythological source and an important early Greek literary work about everyday labor and moral conduct.