Pandora’s story was linked to Prometheus after he stole fire for humanity.
In Hesiod’s account, Prometheus deceives Zeus and later takes fire for humans. Zeus responds by arranging the creation of Pandora, presenting her arrival as a punishment connected with the theft. The Pandora myth is therefore part of the larger Prometheus cycle rather than a completely separate story.
Prometheus is a Titan, and his name is traditionally associated with forethought. His role as a benefactor of humanity became especially influential in later Greek and European literature. In Aeschylus’s tragedy Prometheus Bound, for example, he is portrayed as a suffering champion of humankind, though that play treats the myth differently from Hesiod.
A common mix-up is choosing Epimetheus, who is Pandora’s husband and Prometheus’s brother. Prometheus is the fire-bringer whose defiance gives Zeus the motive for sending the divine woman and the vessel into the human world.