| Names: | Prometheus. |
| Epithets: | Pyrkaios (Fire-Bearer). |
| Powers: | Intelligence; compassion to humans; foresight. |
| Attributes and symbols: | Fire; eagle peeking on his liver; bracelet of iron from the old chain. |
| Gifts to mortals: | Made man out of clay. Fire; industries; civilization. Relieved early people from the knowledge of future, instilled hopes. |
| Origin: | Son of the Titan Iapetus and Themis, brother of Epimetheus and Atlas. |
| Loves: | ? |
| Spouse: | (? Pronoea - Foresight) |
| Children: | Deucalion, survivor of the flood with his wife Pyrrha, daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora. |
| Chosen people/ places: | Was nailed to the rock in Caucasus for millennial torments. |
| Pageant: | Brother Epimetheus. Commiserating Oceanids. |
| Allies/ favorites: | Hephaestus; Athena; Heracles (released him from torments). All mankind. |
| Adversaries: | Zeus. |
| Victims: | --- |
| Notes: | Has the traits of trickster-creator, the "cultural hero' of primitive
mythologies.
In Aeschylus' tragedy, Prometheus is the noble and proud champion of mankind. Mythological parallels: Germanic Odin (self-induced torment in search for the knowledge of runes); Loki (chained to the cliff as a punishment for challenging gods); Biblical Job (challenges supreme rule of the universe); snake/ Fiend (prompts humans to partake of knowledge, thus ending their paradisiac existence). |