A Great Basin Bristlecone Pine called Methuselah is 4, 843 years old ( as of 2012 ) and the Bristlecone Pine called Prometheus was a little older still, at least 4, 844 years ( and possibly as old as 5, 000 years ), when it was cut down in 1964.

Hesiod's Theogony and Aeschylus ' Prometheus Unbound both tell that Heracles shot and killed the eagle that tortured Prometheus ( which was his punishment by Zeus for stealing fire from the gods and giving it to mortals ).

Prometheus Bound, perhaps the most famous treatment of the myth to be found among the Greek tragedies, is traditionally attributed to the 5th-century BC Greek tragedian Aeschylus.

Moreover, Aeschylus anachronistically and artificially injects Io, another victim of Zeus's violence and ancestor of Heracles, into Prometheus ' story.

Finally, just as Aeschylus gave Prometheus a key role in bringing Zeus to power, he also attributed to him secret knowledge that could lead to Zeus's downfall: Prometheus had been told by his mother Gaia of a potential marriage that would produce a son who would overthrow Zeus.

It is apparently not until Prometheus reveals this secret of Zeus's potential downfall that the two reconcile in the final play, Prometheus the Fire-Bringer or Prometheus Pyrphoros, a lost tragedy by Aeschylus.

In Prometheus Unbound ( 1820 ), a four-act lyrical drama, Percy Bysshe Shelley rewrites the lost play of Aeschylus so that Prometheus does not submit to Zeus ( under the Latin name Jupiter ), but instead supplants him in a triumph of the human heart and intellect over tyrannical religion.

Aeschylus Prometheus Bound Text and Commentary ( Cambridge 1983 ).

As Io tells her own story in Aeschylus ' Prometheus Bound, she rejected his whispered nighttime advances until the oracles caused her own father to drive her out into the fields of Lerna.

Andromeda appears in Disney's Hercules: The Animated Series as a new student of " Prometheus Academy " which Hercules and other characters from Greek mythology attend.

The name comes from Greek Bosporos ( Βόσπορος ), which the ancient Greeks analysed as bous ' ox ' + poros ' means of passing a river, ford, ferry ', thus meaning ' ox-ford ', which is a reference to Io ( mythology ) from Greek mythology who was transformed into a cow and condemned to wander the earth until she crossed the Bosphorus where she met Prometheus.

In one Greek myth, Prometheus stole fire from the gods to protect the otherwise helpless humans, but was punished for this charity.

In Greek mythology, Noah has often been compared to Deucalion, the son of Prometheus and Pronoia.

Prometheus () is a Titan, culture hero, and trickster figure who in Greek mythology is credited with the creation of man from clay and the theft of fire for human use, an act that enabled progress and civilization.

In another of his myths, Prometheus establishes the form of animal sacrifice practiced in ancient Greek religion.

The ancients believed that the name Prometheus derived from the Greek pro ( before ) + manthano ( learn ) and the agent suffix-eus, thus meaning " Forethinker ".

Writing in late antiquity, the Latin commentator Servius explains that Prometheus was so named because he was a man of great foresight ( vir prudentissimus ), possessing the abstract quality of providentia, the Latin equivalent of Greek promētheia ().

The Prometheus myth first appeared in the late 8th-century BC Greek epic poet Hesiod's Theogony ( lines 507 – 616 ).

Years later, the Greek hero Heracles ( Hercules ) slays the eagle and frees Prometheus from his chains.

Angelo Casanova, Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Florence, finds in Prometheus a reflection of an ancient, pre-Hesiodic trickster-figure, who served to account for the mixture of good and bad in human life, and whose fashioning of men from clay was an Eastern motif familiar in Enuma Elish ; as an opponent of Zeus he was an analogue of the Titans, and like them was punished.

Hera and Prometheus, Tondo ( art ) | tondo of a 5th-century plate from Vulci, Etruria

Posthumous Portrait of Percy Shelley | Shelley Writing Prometheus Unbound ( Shelley ) | Prometheus Unbound ( 1845 ) On 17 September 1820, Severn set sail onboard the Maria Crowther from England to Italy with the famous English poet John Keats.

Heracles freeing Prometheus from his torment by the eagle ( Pottery of ancient Greece | Attic black-figure cup, ca.

The natural satellite | moons Prometheus ( moon ) | Prometheus and Pandora ( moon ) | Pandora shepherd the Rings of Saturn | F ring of Saturn.

In 1986 the trilogy won the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, designed to honor classic libertarian fiction.

There is evidence that Prometheus Bound was the first play in a trilogy conventionally called the Prometheia, but the other two plays, Prometheus Unbound and Prometheus the Fire-Bringer, survive only in fragments.

West has argued that the Prometheus Bound and its trilogy are at least partially and probably wholly the work of Aeschylus ' son, Euphorion, who was also a playwright.

When Shelley wrote Prometheus Unbound, the authorship of the Prometheia and its connection as a trilogy was not in question.

It is this assumed trilogy, including Prometheus ' reconciliation with Zeus, thought to occur in the final part of the cycle, which Shelley considers in the introduction.

Prometheus the Fire-Bringer ( Ancient Greek: Προμηθεύς Πυρφόρος, Promētheús Pyrphóros ) was likely the final play in the Prometheia trilogy traditionally ascribed to the 5th century BC Greek tragedian Aeschylus.

As conventionally reconstructed, this trilogy reimagines the myths of Prometheus found in Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days.

A minority of scholars believe that Prometheus the Fire-Bringer is actually the first play in the trilogy.

The Prometheia () is a trilogy of plays about the titan Prometheus.

Unlike the Oresteia, only one play from this trilogy — Prometheus Bound — survives.

Inasmuch as the authorship of Prometheus Bound continues to be debated, the very existence of a Prometheus trilogy is uncertain.

To the extent that modern scholars postulate the existence of such a trilogy by a single author, the consensus holds that it comprised Prometheus Bound, Prometheus Unbound, and Prometheus the Fire-Bringer, in that order.

A minority of scholars believe that Prometheus the Fire-Bringer is actually the first play in the trilogy.

Only seven of his estimated seventy to ninety plays have survived into modern times, and there is a longstanding debate about his authorship of one of these plays, Prometheus Bound.

** Prometheus Bound by Elizabeth Barrett Browning ( 1833 )

At the center of the drama are the results of Prometheus ' theft of fire and his current punishment by Zeus ; the playwright's dependence on the Hesiodic source material is clear, though Prometheus Bound also includes a number of changes to the received tradition.

Prometheus Bound also includes two mythic innovations of omission.

In Prometheus Bound, this dynamic is transposed: Prometheus becomes the benefactor of humanity, while every character in the drama ( except for Hermes, a virtual stand-in for Zeus ) decries the Olympian as a cruel, vicious tyrant.

Pseudo-Apollodorus moreover clarifies a cryptic statement ( 1026 – 29 ) made by Hermes in Prometheus Bound, identifying the centaur Chiron as the one who would take on Prometheus ' suffering and die in his place.

* Book " Prometheus Bound " ( free download – two volumes about 600 pages )

The ancients connected Io with the Moon, and in Aeschylus ' Prometheus Bound, where Io encounters Prometheus, she refers to herself as " the horned virgin ", both bovine and lunar.

* In the Greek Tragedy, Prometheus Bound translated by G. M. Cookson, Hephaestus is to bind Prometheus " to the jagged rocks in adamantine bonds infrangible.

* Hesione was an Oceanid who became wife of Prometheus according to both Acusilaus and Aeschylus ( in Prometheus Bound, 555 ).