Pandora’s story is closely linked to Prometheus, the Titan who gave fire to humanity. In Greek myth, Zeus punishes Prometheus for this act, and Pandora becomes part of the punishment imposed on humans.
Hesiod’s Works and Days places the episodes in sequence: Prometheus deceives Zeus during a sacrifice, steals fire for humans, and suffers punishment. Zeus then has Pandora created and sends her to Prometheus’s brother Epimetheus. The jar episode follows soon afterward.
Later writers and artists often combine Prometheus and Pandora into a single moral story about knowledge, technology, curiosity, and consequences. In the earliest surviving accounts, however, their roles are distinct. Prometheus is the benefactor and rebel; Pandora is the created woman whose arrival brings the jar and its contents into human life.
The connection is why many reference works discuss Pandora’s Box alongside the Prometheus myth rather than treating it as an isolated tale.