In the Pandora myth, Epimetheus receives Pandora despite Prometheus’s warning.
Epimetheus is a Titan whose name is commonly explained as “afterthought,” contrasting with his brother Prometheus, whose name suggests forethought. Hesiod presents Prometheus as warning Epimetheus not to accept gifts from Zeus. Epimetheus nevertheless accepts Pandora, who has been sent as part of Zeus’s punishment of humanity.
Pandora’s opening of the vessel follows her arrival in Epimetheus’s household. The episode is not simply a story about curiosity in isolation; it is part of a chain involving Prometheus’s deception of Zeus and the theft of fire. Modern versions often make Pandora and Epimetheus less central than the box itself, but the brothers’ contrasting names and decisions are important features of the Greek narrative. “Epimetheus” is therefore the precise answer, rather than Prometheus, who is Pandora’s associated but separate Titan figure.