Which poem by Hesiod gives the fullest surviving version of Pandora’s story?

Works and Days gives the fullest surviving version of Pandora’s story by Hesiod.

The poem is a mixture of moral instruction, farming advice, calendar material, social criticism, and myth. Its Pandora episode appears within an explanation of why humans must work and why life includes hardship. Zeus’s response to Prometheus provides the narrative background for the arrival of Pandora and the release of troubles.

Hesiod also mentions Pandora in the Theogony, but that passage is shorter and focuses more on her connection with the broader divine conflict. Works and Days supplies the sequence involving her creation, the gifts from the gods, Epimetheus, and the vessel.

The title is sometimes written in Greek as Erga kai Hemerai, meaning “Works and Days.” Because the poem combines practical instruction with mythic explanation, it is not simply a collection of stories. Pandora’s narrative is one episode inside a larger work about labor, justice, agriculture, and human life.