Epimetheus was Pandora’s husband in the Greek story of Pandora’s Box.
Epimetheus was a Titan associated with hindsight and thought after the event. His name is commonly interpreted as “afterthought,” contrasting with his brother Prometheus, whose name is associated with forethought. In Hesiod’s account, Prometheus warns Epimetheus not to accept a gift from Zeus, but Epimetheus accepts Pandora when she arrives.
The marriage connects Pandora’s arrival with the consequences of Prometheus’s theft of fire. After Pandora opens the storage jar, suffering enters human life in the myth’s explanation of why people experience hardship. Epimetheus is therefore the figure who receives Pandora, not the figure who shaped her or stole fire.
Names from this story are often mixed up because Prometheus and Epimetheus are brothers and both are central to the same myth cycle. Pandora’s husband is specifically Epimetheus, while Prometheus is her brother-in-law in the traditional genealogy.