In Hesiod’s Theogony, Prometheus’s theft of fire leads to Pandora’s creation.
Prometheus is the Titan associated with helping humanity. In Hesiod’s account, he deceives Zeus during a sacrifice and later steals fire for mortals, an act that gives humans a powerful divine resource. Zeus responds by arranging a punishment for humanity as well as for Prometheus.
That punishment takes the form of Pandora, whom the gods create and equip with gifts. The story therefore connects three major mythic themes: the boundary between gods and humans, the possession of fire, and the arrival of suffering in human life.
Prometheus and Pandora are often treated as parts of one continuous myth, but the emphasis differs between Hesiod’s poems. Theogony is relatively compressed, while Works and Days supplies more detail about Pandora’s appearance and the consequences of opening her vessel. Epimetheus, Prometheus’s brother, is the one who accepts Pandora, not the Titan who steals the fire.