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s, -thyoos] Pronunciation Key | a Titan, the father of Deucalion and brother of Atlas and Epimetheus, who taught humankind various arts and was sometimes said to have shaped humans out of clay and endowed them with the spark of life. For having stolen fire from Olympus and given it to humankind in defiance of Zeus, he was chained to a rock where an eagle daily tore at his liver, until he was finally released by Hercules. |
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[Latin Promētheus, from Greek.] |
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| (Greek mythology) the Titan who stole fire from Olympus and gave it to mankind; Zeus punished him by chaining him to a rock where an eagle gnawed at his liver until Hercules rescued him |
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Prometheus [(pruh-mee-thee-uhs, pruh-meeTh-yoohs)]
In classical mythology, the Titan who stole fire from the gods and gave it to humans. As punishment for the theft, Zeus ordered Prometheus chained to a rock and sent a great eagle to gnaw at the Titan's liver. Despite his torment, Prometheus refused to submit to Zeus' will. He was eventually rescued by Hercules.
Note: Prometheus has become a symbol of lonely and valiant resistance to authority. Aeschylus wrote a play, Prometheus Bound, and Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote a long poem entitled “Prometheus Unbound.”
[Chapter:] Mythology and Folklore
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Prometheus language
A programmaing language geared for logic, mathematics, AI, and string, list and database processing. Prometheus runs on a variety of platforms from Macintosh to MS-DOS
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Prometheus
Pro*me"the*a\, n. [NL. See Prometheus.] (Zo["o]l.) A large American bombycid moth (Callosamia promethea). Its larva feeds on the sassafras, wild cherry, and other trees, and suspends its cocoon from a branch by a silken band.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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