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:

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

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

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;

/ 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.

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

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;

The barbarian gods, who are dying of hunger, are bawling like Illyrians and threaten to make an armed descent upon Zeus, if he does not open markets where joints of the victims are sold.

there are other gods besides you, barbarian gods who dwell above Olympus?

Zeus restores the scepter to the birds and gives you Basileia in marriage.

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.

also she bore very glorious Menoetius and clever Prometheus, full of various wiles, and scatter-brained Epimetheus who from the first was a mischief to men who eat bread;

And ready-witted Prometheus he bound with inextricable bonds, cruel chains, and drove a shaft through his middle, and set on him a long-winged eagle, which used to eat his immortal liver;

For when the gods and mortal men had a dispute at Mecone, even then Prometheus was forward to cut up a great ox and set portions before them, trying to deceive the mind of Zeus.

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.

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

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.