Which Titan stole fire for humans before Zeus created Pandora?

Prometheus stole fire for humans before Zeus created Pandora. In Greek mythology, Prometheus is a Titan associated with forethought, craft, and humanity’s survival. His theft directly provokes Zeus’s punishment in the Pandora story.

According to the best-known tradition, Prometheus hides fire in a fennel stalk and carries it from the gods to humanity. Fire represents more than warmth: it enables cooking, metalworking, technology, and civilization. Zeus therefore treats the theft as a serious challenge to divine authority.

The myth links Prometheus’s action to both his own punishment and Pandora’s creation. Prometheus is chained and suffers a recurring ordeal, while humanity receives Pandora and the troubles released from her jar.

Prometheus and Pandora are sometimes treated as separate myths, but Hesiod places them in the same larger explanation of why human beings possess fire yet also endure hardship.