Theogony and Works and Days

Who is Prometheus from Theogony and Works and Days and what is their importance?

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Prometheus is the son of Iapetus and Clymene. Prometheus angers Zeus by preparing a meal and presenting the gods w/ innards and bones covered with fat instead of equal shares. When Zeus refuses to give fire to mankind, Prometheus steals it and gives it to men. Zeus is furious and makes an evil thing as a price for the fire: a woman whose guile is not to be withstood by men, Pandora. She opens a box that releases plagues and evils upon the world. She also creates the deadly tribe and race of women with the nature to do evil to all men.