July
07
/ 2022
The story of Prometheus is one of the most curious of Greek mythology. Over the centuries it has been enriched by poets and philosophers, and these days Prometheus personifies intelligence, even cunning, for his attempt to help mankind, although in the end he succumbed in his unequal struggle with Zeus. The mythology of Prometheus speaks of the creation of mankind, the birth of both civilization and suffering. The Story of Prometheus Prometheus, whose name meant foresight, was a demigod, the son of the Titan Iapetus and Clymene or Asia, both Oceanids and daughters of Oceanus. His brothers were the foolish Epimetheus (known as the “afterthinker”), Atlas and Menoetius. When the conflict erupted for power between the Olympian gods and the
