In Greek mythology, Prometheus is associated with giving fire to humanity before Pandora’s arrival. The best-known version says that he stole fire from the gods and gave it to mortals, allowing human civilization to develop. Zeus punished Prometheus and devised a separate punishment for humanity.
Pandora’s story appears within this larger sequence in Hesiod’s Works and Days. Zeus sends Pandora as a response to Prometheus’s defiance, so the jar episode is not an unrelated tale. The myth connects technological knowledge, divine authority and human suffering through the actions of one Titan.
Ancient sources differ in details about how Prometheus obtained the fire and how his punishment was carried out. A famous later tradition has him chained to a mountain while an eagle eats his liver, which regenerates. That torture scene is not the same event as Pandora’s arrival, although both belong to the Prometheus cycle.