In Greek mythology, Prometheus released fire to humanity before Pandora was created.
Prometheus is a Titan associated with foresight, craft, and the protection of humankind. In the best-known account, he stole fire from the gods and gave it to people, enabling cooking, metalworking, and other technologies. Zeus regarded this act as a challenge to divine authority.
Hesiod connects the punishment for this theft directly with the creation of Pandora. Zeus had already punished Prometheus, but he also planned a broader punishment for humanity. Pandora’s arrival therefore belongs to the same sequence of stories as the theft of fire.
Later Greek and Roman writers expanded Prometheus’s importance, sometimes making him the actual creator of humans from clay. That detail is not the same as Hesiod’s Pandora narrative. The two myths became closely linked in later retellings, especially because both explain humanity’s difficult relationship with the gods.