Which Hesiod work says Pandora closed the jar after hope remained inside?

Hesiod’s Works and Days says Pandora closed the jar after hope remained inside.

Works and Days is an archaic Greek poem combining farming advice, moral instruction, myth, and reflections on justice. Its Pandora narrative explains the arrival of suffering in human life and includes the detail that hope stays within the vessel after the other contents escape.

Hesiod also mentions Pandora in the Theogony, but the Works and Days passage provides the fuller account of her creation, marriage to Epimetheus, and the opened container. The two poems are therefore both relevant, though they are not interchangeable sources for every detail.

The poem is traditionally attributed to Hesiod and is usually dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. Dating remains approximate because the surviving text comes through later manuscript transmission. The specific scene involving the jar is nevertheless one of the most recognizable passages in ancient Greek literature.