Epimetheus
mythological figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
scatter-brained Epimetheus
in the texts
Stromata
Epimetheus, brother of Prometheus, listed as a contemporary figure under Triopas.
Under Triopas were Prometheus and Atlas and Epimetheus and the two-natured Cecrops and Io.
Theogony
Son of Iapetus and Clymene, a mischief to men from the first, who accepts the woman formed by the gods.
also she bore very glorious Menoetius and clever Prometheus, full of various wiles, and scatter-brained Epimetheus who from the first was a mischief to men who eat bread;
Works and Days
Brother of Prometheus who, disregarding his brother's warning, accepts Pandora as a gift from Zeus and only realizes the harm once it is done.
And Epimetheus did not think on what Prometheus had said to him, bidding him never take a gift of Olympian Zeus, but to send it back for fear it might prove to be something harmful to men.