Editing Epimetheus (section)

{{Short description|Brother of Atlas, Menoetius and Prometheus}}
{{other uses}}
{{Infobox deity
| type             = Greek
| name             = Epimetheus
| image            = Pandora's gift to Epimetheus.jpg
| caption          = [[Pandora]] offers the jar to Epimetheus.
| god_of           = God of afterthought
| abode            = 
| consort          = [[Pandora]]
| parents          = [[Iapetus]] and [[Clymene (wife of Iapetus)|Clymene]]
| siblings         = [[Prometheus]], [[Menoetius]], [[Atlas (mythology)|Atlas]]
| children         = [[Prophasis]], [[Pyrrha]]
}}
{{Greek deities (Titans)}}

In [[Greek mythology]], '''Epimetheus''' ({{IPAc-en|ɛ|p|ɪ|ˈ|m|iː|θ|i|ə|s|audio=LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-Epimetheus.wav}}; {{langx|grc|Ἐπιμηθεύς||afterthought}})<ref>Yasumura, [https://books.google.com/books?id=mVoDAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA110 p. 110]</ref> is the brother of [[Prometheus]], the pair serving "as representatives of mankind".<ref>Kerényi, [https://archive.org/details/godsofgreeks00kerrich/page/206/mode/2up?view=theater p. 207].</ref> Both sons of the [[Titans|Titan]] [[Iapetus]],<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0020.tlg001.perseus-eng1:507-544 507&ndash;12]; Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA49 p. 49]</ref> while Prometheus ("foresight") is ingeniously clever, Epimetheus ("hindsight") is inept and foolish. In some accounts of the myth, Epimetheus unleashes the unforeseen troubles in [[Pandora's box]].