Epimetheus
deity figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 5 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.
Protagoras
Prometheus' brother, who carries out the distribution of faculties to animals but leaves man without any.
Epimetheus besought Prometheus that he might do the dealing himself;
Now Epimetheus, being not so wise as he might be, heedlessly squandered his stock of properties on the brutes;