Prometheus ' torment by the eagle and his rescue by Heracles were popular subjects in vase paintings of the 6th – 4th c. BC.

While he drew inspiration from their collaboration Prometheus Bound, c. 1611 – 12, Jordaens ' version is a more hopeful narrative.

The hallucination of Teal ' c warns her that this whole scenario could be a result of the hostile alien species mind-probing, with a view to her inadvertently surrendering information about the Prometheus ' engine technology.

Zeus and Poseidon had been rivals for the hand of Thetis until Prometheus, the fore-thinker, warned Zeus of a prophecy that Thetis would bear a son greater than his father.

in engineering, math, psychology ), ( See also Prometheus Rising.

* 1964 – Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down.

* 1964 – Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down.

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.

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.

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.

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Gnosticism attributed falsehood, fallen or evil, to the concept of Demiurge or Creator ( see Zeus and Prometheus ), though sometimes the creator is from a fallen, ignorant or lesser, rather than evil, perspective ( in some Gnosticism traditions ), such as that of Valentinius.

The story of Prometheus ' sacrifice-trick in Hesiod's Theogony relates how Prometheus tricked Zeus into choosing the bones and fat of the first sacrificial animal rather than the meat to justify why, after a sacrifice, the Greeks offered the bones wrapped in fat to the gods while keeping the meat for themselves.

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In 1984, Nineteen Eighty-Four and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 were honoured with the Prometheus Award for their contributions to dystopian literature.

The story was slightly altered and the title changed to King Kong vs. Prometheus, returning the name to the original Frankenstein concept ( The Modern Prometheus was the alternate name of Frankenstein in the original novel ).

When John Beck sold the King Kong vs. Prometheus script to Toho ( which became King Kong vs. Godzilla ), he was given exclusive rights to produce a version of the film for release in non-Asian territories.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ; or, the Modern Prometheus ( 1818 ) has come to define Gothic fiction in the Romantic period.

Kildall's final business venture, known as Prometheus Light and Sound and based in Austin, Texas, developed a home PBX system which integrated land-line telephones with mobile phones.

Moreover, they both refer to the same version of the Prometheus myth.

* Prometheus ( the film includes " The Derelict " spacecraft and the " Space Jockey " designs from the first Alien film, as well as original extraterrestrial murals created exclusively for the new movie.

Prometheus then made predictions regarding further deeds of Heracles.

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Jacob Jordaens, Prometheus ( 1640 ).

The painting " Prometheus " ( 1640 ) by Jacob Jordaens is a depiction of the mythological tale of the titan Prometheus who had his liver pecked out by an eagle each day only to regenerate and begin the cycle anew the next day.

Epimetheus ( the brother of Prometheus ) is overwhelmed by her beauty, disregards Prometheus ' warnings about her, and marries her.

In the Prometheus mythos of Hesiodus and possibly Aeschylus ( the Greek mythos | Greek trilogy Prometheus Bound, Prometheus Unbound ( Aeschylus ) | Prometheus Unbound and Prometheus Pyrphoros ), Prometheus is bound and tortured for giving fire to humanity at its creation.

His prose works on various subjects – Prometheus, dialogues like Symposium ( a banquet at which Virgil, Horace and Messalla were present ), De cultu suo ( on his manner of life ) and a poem In Octaviam (" Against Octavia ") of which the content is unclear-were ridiculed by Augustus, Seneca and Quintilian for their strange style, the use of rare words and awkward transpositions.

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.

The punishment of Prometheus as a consequence of the theft is a major theme of his mythology, and is a popular subject of both ancient and modern art.

In some stories, Prometheus is freed at last by the hero Heracles ( Hercules ).

Evidence of a cult to Prometheus himself is not widespread.

Prometheus, in eternal punishment, is chained to a rock in the Caucasus, where his liver is eaten daily by an eagle, only to be regenerated by night, due to his immortality.

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.

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.

For example, Hephaestus, Hermes, and Prometheus represented the fool character as " jesters to the gods.

Brown was influenced by these writers and in turn exerted an influence on them and their younger studiers, for example in Godwin's later novels, or in the work of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley, who reread Brown as she wrote her novels Frankenstein ; or, The Modern Prometheus ( 1818 ) and The Last Man ( 1826 ).

" That is, how could the playwright who demonstrated such piety toward Zeus in ( for example ) The Suppliants and Agamemnon be the same playwright who, in Prometheus Bound, inveighs against Zeus for being a violent tyrant?

For example, the leading edge of the Prometheus flow moved between Voyager in 1979 and the first Galileo observations in 1996.

An example of this is Hercules and the Visit From Zeus replacing the clip of Hercules graduating from Prometheus Academy.

Take, for example, the sense of sin imaginatively revived as we respond to Milton's presentation of Satan, or to the condemnation, suggested by Aeschylus ' drama, of the rebellion of Prometheus in effecting the ' progress ' of man.

At work in the poems of Milton and Aeschylus, for example, as well as in Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, is a fatherlike figure that Bodkin identifies as the Divine Despot ( Bodkin 1934: 250 ; cited in Allgaier 1973: 1036 ).

The only example is the Suffering of Christ ( Christus Patiens, Χριστος πασχον ), written in the eleventh or 12th century ; of its 2, 640 verses, about one-third are borrowed from ancient dramas, chiefly from those of Euripides, and Mary, the chief character, sometimes recites verses from the " Medea " of Euripides, again from the " Electra " of Sophocles, or the " Prometheus " of Aeschylus.