Prometheus

There is, then, even in philosophy — stolen, as it were, by Prometheus — a little fire, usefully rekindled to a light fit for its purpose:

and Ister, in his work On the Egyptian Colony, says she was the daughter of Prometheus.

Under Triopas were Prometheus and Atlas and Epimetheus and the two-natured Cecrops and Io.

/ Thus I feed this guardian of my mournful torment, / Which fouls me, living, with unending misery.

/ From which there fall drops melted by the sun's heat, / Which drip without ceasing upon the rocks of Caucasus.

How, in him, does Prometheus bear the pain which he undergoes for the theft from Lemnos — \"whence fire is famed to have been secretly parcelled out to mortals;

And so indeed Prometheus is justly said, bound on the rock, to have his liver cropped by the eagle.

And on account of these things, it seemed to him, the myth too is told, that Zeus punishes Prometheus for the discovery and giving of fire, as being the beginning and starting-point of softness and luxury for men.

And Prometheus, some sophist, as it seems to me, finding him perishing of vainglory—now, when he was praised, his liver swelling and growing, and again wasting, when they blamed him—pitying him and frightening him, he put a stop to his conceit and his contentiousness;

Prometheus:

Prometheus:

Prometheus:

On thee I call, Athena mine, at whose birth-throes no kindly goddess lent her aid, delivered as thou wert by Titan Prometheus from the forehead of Zeus.

At the Homoloian gates Tydeus had his post, a lion’s skin with shaggy mane upon his shield, while the Titan Prometheus bore a torch in his right hand, to fire the town.

I think, however, it is forgotten that the assertion made by Morgan is made of a time when neither Surgery nor Medicine existed, of a time before that at which, according to the Greek tradition, Prometheus discovered the chopped herbs which were to be the remedy for human ailments.

But wily Prometheus answered him, smiling softly and not forgetting his cunning trick:

but for Zeus he put the white bones dressed up with cunning art and covered with shining fat.

But the noble son of Iapetus outwitted him and stole the far-seen gleam of unwearying fire in a hollow fennel stalk.

But Zeus in the anger of his heart hid it, because Prometheus the crafty deceived him;

but that the noble son of Iapetus stole again for men from Zeus the counsellor in a hollow fennel-stalk, so that Zeus who delights in thunder did not see it.

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.

A gift of gods to men, as I believe, was tossed down from some divine source through the agency of a Prometheus together with a gleaming fire;

When they were about to bring these creatures to light, they charged Prometheus and Epimetheus to deal to each the equipment of his proper faculty.

Then Prometheus, in his perplexity as to what preservation he could devise for man, stole from Hephaestus and Athena wisdom in the arts together with fire—since by no means without fire could it be acquired or helpfully used by any—and he handed it there and then as a gift to man.

and that is the reason why the gifts of the gods that are told of in the old traditions were given us with the needful information and instruction,—fire by Prometheus, the arts by Hephaestus and the goddess who is his fellow-artisan, seeds and plants by other deities.

august Poseidon holds it, and in it lives the fire-bearing god, the Titan Prometheus.

For men worthy of him through the innocence of their righteousness, who knew God and could make him known, he sent forth from the beginning into the world, flooded with the divine Spirit, to proclaim that there is one only God, who founded the universe, who fashioned man from the clay (for this is the true Prometheus), who ordered the world by fixed dispositions and ends of time;

he was establishing a democracy in Thessaly along with Prometheus, and arming the serfs against their masters.