Prometheus stole fire from the gods for humanity in the mythological story connected with Pandora.
In Hesiod’s account, Prometheus deceived Zeus during a sacrifice and later took fire for mortals. Zeus responded by arranging the creation of Pandora as a punishment for humanity and for Prometheus’s defiance.
Prometheus is a Titan, a member of the older divine generation that preceded the Olympian gods. His name is often connected with forethought, while his brother Epimetheus is associated with hindsight or afterthought.
The fire episode and Pandora episode belong to a wider set of Greek myths about the boundary between gods and humans. Later writers, especially Aeschylus, developed Prometheus into a more sympathetic champion of civilization than the harsher Hesiodic version.