Epimetheus received Pandora after Prometheus warned him not to accept gifts from Zeus.
Epimetheus is a Titan and the brother of Prometheus. His name is commonly associated with thinking after the event, contrasting with Prometheus, whose name is linked to forethought. In Hesiod’s story, Prometheus warns Epimetheus not to accept anything from Zeus, but Epimetheus accepts Pandora when she arrives.
Pandora’s arrival at Epimetheus’s home sets up the later opening of the storage jar. The myth uses the brothers’ contrasting names and decisions to reinforce a theme about judgment and consequences. Epimetheus is not the person who steals fire; that role belongs to Prometheus.
In later traditions, Epimetheus and Pandora become the parents of Pyrrha. Pyrrha later survives the flood associated with Deucalion, although that wider genealogy varies across ancient sources and later retellings.