In Hesiod’s Works and Days, Pandora is received by Epimetheus, the brother of Prometheus.
Epimetheus is a Titan associated with hindsight, while his brother Prometheus is associated with forethought. Hesiod presents Epimetheus as failing to heed Prometheus’s warning not to accept a gift from Zeus. Pandora arrives as that apparently valuable gift, and the disastrous consequences follow when she opens the container entrusted to her.
The names help explain the contrast between the brothers. Prometheus is commonly interpreted as “forethought,” whereas Epimetheus is associated with “afterthought” or thinking afterward. This wordplay makes Epimetheus’s decision central to the moral structure of the story. He is not the craftsman who creates Pandora, nor is he the human recipient in every later retelling; the specific recipient named in Hesiod’s Works and Days is Epimetheus.