Which work by Hesiod contains the fullest surviving version of the Pandora myth?

Works and Days contains the fullest surviving version of the Pandora myth. Hesiod’s didactic poem combines advice about farming and justice with stories explaining why human beings must work and suffer. Pandora’s creation appears within that wider moral and social framework.

The poem describes Zeus’s response to Prometheus’s theft of fire. It introduces Pandora as the first woman, records the gods’ contributions to her character, and tells how she opened the large jar that released evils into the human world. The narrative is shorter than many modern retellings but is the key ancient source for the familiar episode.

Hesiod’s Theogony also mentions Pandora, yet it does not provide the same complete sequence of events. Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey do not supply the standard Pandora story, while Ovid’s Metamorphoses belongs to a much later Roman literary tradition and does not serve as the primary source for this myth.

Works and Days is therefore the best specific answer when a question asks where the detailed ancient account appears.