There are obvious links in terms of theme between the film, the myth and other related stories.
For example Prometheus made man out of clay (Athena put the spirit in).
Zeus had already destroyed five previous races of men and Prometheus was keen to prevent this from happening again so when his brother ran out of positive attributes after giving them all to the animals Prometheus stole some fire from the sun to keep man alive and taught man the skills necessary to form civilisation.
Prometheus was punished by by having his body tied to a rock and his liver was pecked out by an eagle but being a Titan it regenerated (incidentally the human liver does have amazing regenerative abilities) making the torment eternal. Eventually he turned into rock.
Man was punished by having to endure woman (a common theme in most creation stories).
The first woman, Pandora is given to Epimetheus (Prometheus' brother) with a wedding gift of an urn.
She is told not open it but she has to take a peek (now you know how Greek e-mail viruses get spread around).
This releases all forms of torment on humanity except for hope.
The story as far as we know has evidence of an alien that instructs humanity in basic technology, urns containing all forms of nastiness and the human responsible is a woman.
The story was a big hit with the Romantic poets, Milton was a big hit and Prometheus was equated with Lucifer.
Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein Or The Modern Prometheus and the film has an artificial man at the heart of the story.