Pandora married Epimetheus after being sent among humans in Greek mythology.
Epimetheus was the brother of Prometheus and the figure who received Pandora. His name is commonly understood as “afterthought,” contrasting with Prometheus, whose name is associated with forethought. The contrast reflects their mythic personalities: Epimetheus accepts a gift that Prometheus had warned him not to accept.
Hesiod’s story connects their marriage with the origin of human troubles. Pandora arrives with the sealed container, opens it, and releases diseases and other hardships into the world. The narrative presents her arrival as part of Zeus’s response to Prometheus’s theft of fire rather than as an independent romance.
Prometheus is frequently mistaken for Pandora’s husband because he is the best-known figure in the surrounding myth. He is actually her husband’s brother. Later traditions sometimes add different genealogies or characters, but Epimetheus is the name used in Hesiod’s core account.