In the Greek myth of Pandora, Prometheus gave fire to humanity before Zeus created her.
Prometheus is a Titan associated with intelligence, craft, and foresight. In the best-known literary tradition, he stole fire from the gods and delivered it to humans. Fire represented more than warmth: it supported cooking, metalworking, technology, and the development of human culture. Zeus regarded the act as defiance and punished Prometheus.
The Pandora story follows this conflict. Hesiod describes Zeus arranging Pandora’s creation as part of a punishment that would affect humanity. Prometheus and Pandora therefore belong to the same mythic sequence, although they perform opposite roles: Prometheus benefits humans by giving them fire, while Pandora becomes associated with the arrival of troubles.
Prometheus is sometimes called a god in casual retellings, but ancient Greek sources classify him as a Titan. Epimetheus, his brother, is the figure who accepts Pandora.