Can someone explain the allusion to prometheus and epithemus in the Protagoras?

Answer 1

According to Plato's use of the old myth in his Protagoras, where "he has a dialogue" with the old philosopher, the twin Titans were entrusted with distributing the traits among the newly-created animals; Epimetheus was responsible for giving a positive trait to every animal, but when it was time to give man a positive trait, lacking foresight, he found that there was nothing left. His brother Prometheus then stole fire from Zeus and gave it to man, and was punished for his impiety by being strapped to a mountain top and visited by an eagle who ate his liver every day. Since Prometheus was a Titan and therefore practically immortal, his liver grew back every day, so the eagle had to come back, keeping Prometheus in constant pain. As further punishment, Zeus created Pandora, the first woman, for Epimetheus, knowing that he would fall in love with her despite the warnings of his brother, the embodiment of foresight, who told him never to accept a gift from the Olympian gods (with whom the primordial Titans, sprung from Mother Earth, were ever at odds).