Prometheus’s theft of fire precedes Pandora’s creation in Hesiod’s Works and Days.
Hesiod presents Prometheus as the Titan who deceives Zeus and steals fire for humans. Zeus responds by arranging the creation of Pandora, whose arrival brings additional hardship to human life. The stories are therefore linked as successive episodes in Hesiod’s explanation of humanity’s condition.
Prometheus is widely known as a benefactor of humanity, but ancient versions vary in how sympathetic or rebellious he appears. Hesiod emphasizes his conflict with Zeus and treats the consequences as part of a larger divine punishment.
Later Greek and Roman writers expanded the Prometheus tradition, especially the idea that he fashioned humans from clay. That detail is not identical to every early account. Pandora’s story itself concerns the gods’ creation of the first woman and the opening of the jar, not Prometheus’s own imprisonment or punishment.