In Greek mythology, Prometheus is punished in the Pandora story for giving fire to humanity. His theft of fire establishes the conflict that leads Zeus to send Pandora as a destructive gift.
Prometheus is a Titan, although he supports humans against Zeus in several Greek traditions. In Hesiod’s account, he tricks Zeus at a sacrifice and later steals fire for mortals. Zeus then conceives a punishment affecting humanity, while Prometheus receives a separate punishment: he is bound and subjected to an eagle eating his liver, which grows back repeatedly.
Pandora’s arrival is therefore part of a larger sequence about divine authority, human technology, and suffering. Epimetheus, Prometheus’s brother, accepts Pandora despite Prometheus’s warning not to accept gifts from Zeus. These connected episodes are sometimes blended together in modern summaries, but Prometheus—not Epimetheus—is the Titan who steals the fire and provokes Zeus’s response.