Which work by Hesiod contains the fullest surviving ancient account of Pandora?

Hesiod’s Works and Days contains the fullest surviving ancient account of Pandora. The poem combines moral instruction, farming advice, seasonal guidance, and myths about the human condition.

Pandora appears in the poem as part of Zeus’s response to Prometheus’s theft of fire. Hesiod describes her creation and the opening of the container that releases evils into the world. The account is one of the earliest surviving literary versions of the story.

Hesiod also mentions Pandora in the Theogony, but that work provides a shorter and less developed reference. The two poems are therefore connected, yet Works and Days is the key ancient source for the narrative familiar today. It was probably composed in the late eighth or early seventh century BCE.