Which Roman poet retold the Pandora story in a passage of his poem Works and Days?

No Roman poet retold the Pandora story in a passage of Works and Days, because Works and Days is a poem by the Greek poet Hesiod.

Hesiod composed Works and Days in archaic Greece, probably around the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. The poem combines advice about farming, justice, labor, seafaring, and human history with mythic material, including the creation of Pandora and the release of troubles from her jar.

The wording of this question matters because Ovid, Virgil, and Horace were Roman poets who lived centuries later. Ovid retold many Greek myths in the Metamorphoses, but Works and Days is not his work and is not a Roman poem.

The correct identification is therefore Hesiod, not a Roman author. This distinguishes the source of the fuller early Pandora account from later Latin adaptations and from modern versions of the “box” story.