"Mankind shall have fire, despite what Zeus has decided," he said to himself. And with that thought, he snuck quietly into Zeus' domain and stole a spark from Zeus' own lightning bolt. Prometheus touched the end of the long reed to the spark, and the dry substance within it caught on...
As you rightly pointed out, if Prometheus had not stolen the fire from Zeus, the fate of mankind would have been vastly different. Without the warmth, light, and power of fire, human civilization would have been severely limited in its development and progress. The myth highlights the importan...
Prometheus is famous for a couple of seemingly unrelated stories: (1) thegift of fire to mankindand (2) being chained to a rock where every day an eagle came to eat his liver. There is a connection, however, and one that shows why Prometheus, the father of the Greek Noah, was called...
a Titan in Greek myth who stole fire from Olympus and gave it to humankind in defiance of Zeus: in revenge, Zeus chained Prometheus to a rock where an eagle tore at his liver until he was finally released by Hercules. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictio...
Prometheuslit a torch from the chariot and put the fire in a hollow stalk that he concealed under his cloak. 普罗米修斯从战车上点燃一支火把,把火放在一根空心的茎里,藏在他的斗篷里。 2. This year marks exactly two centuries since the publication of "Frankenstein; or, The ModernPrometheus," by...
during which runners of the same team passed between them a flaming torch until the last runner of the winning team had the privilege to use it to kindle the sacrificial fire on the altar ofAthenaon the Acropolis. This, of course, marked the origin of both relay races and the modern Olym...
Presents the short story `The Myth of Prometheus.' T Myers,B Helquist - 《Cricket》 被引量: 1发表: 1999年 Transforming Fire: The Effect of Technology on Humanity in Hesiod's Prometheus Myth and the Watcher Myth of I Enoch Illustrates the connections between "1 Enoch," an apocalyptic work...
A master craftsman considered the wisest of his race, he was credited with the creation of humans and with giving them fire and various types of skills and knowledge. His name means "forethought." Prometheus was the son of the Titan Iapetus and of either the sea nymph Clymene or the ...
Prometheus the god stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at his liver, until Herakles freed him. For the Greeks, the myth of Prometheus's release reflected a primordial law of existence and the fate ...
Prometheus, in Greek religion, one of the Titans, the supreme trickster, and a god of fire. His intellectual side was emphasized by the apparent meaning of his name, Forethinker. In common belief he developed into a master craftsman, and in this connecti