Prometheus stole fire for humanity in the story that leads to Pandora’s creation.
In Greek mythology, Prometheus was a Titan who favored human beings. He took fire from the gods and gave it to mortals, an act that challenged Zeus’s authority. Zeus punished Prometheus severely, while also arranging a separate punishment for humanity through Pandora.
Hesiod presents Pandora as part of the consequence of Prometheus’s deception and theft. Zeus had Pandora fashioned and sent her among humans, carrying the container whose opening released suffering. The two myths are therefore closely connected, even though Prometheus and Pandora do not perform the same action.
Later writers, especially Aeschylus, developed Prometheus into a more sympathetic champion of human civilization. Hesiod’s earlier treatment is harsher: Prometheus’s cleverness is linked to disobedience, and Pandora’s arrival becomes the cost imposed on humanity after the theft of fire.