Prometheus is the Titan punished in Hesiod’s Works and Days for stealing fire for humanity.
Prometheus is one of the Titans, the older generation of divine beings in Greek mythology. In the story, he takes fire from the gods and gives it to humans, enabling technology, cooking, craft, and civilization. Zeus responds with punishment for Prometheus and a separate punishment affecting humanity.
Prometheus’s punishment is usually described as being chained to a mountain, where an eagle repeatedly eats his liver. The liver grows back, making the suffering recur. That part of the myth is especially prominent in later traditions and in Aeschylus’s tragedy Prometheus Bound, although the surviving ancient text has a complicated authorship history.
Pandora’s arrival is therefore not an isolated tale. It is paired with Prometheus’s defiance and his brother Epimetheus’s acceptance of Pandora. The two stories explain both divine anger toward humanity and the continuing presence of hardship in human life.