Chapter 4: Prometheus and the First Men
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♠ Hesiod, Theogony 521-22
And ready-witted Prometheus he bound with inextricable bonds, cruel chains, and drove a shaft through his middle. Greek Text
♦ Athens, National Archaeoloigcal Museum, 16384: Attic black-figure skyphos-krater by Nettos Painter, with Herakles, Prometheus and eagle
Beazley Archive Pottery Database
♦ Berlin, Antikensammlung F1722: Attic black-figure column krater with Herakles, Prometheus and eagle
Otto Jahn, Archäologische beiträge (1847), pl. 8
Beazley Archive Pottery Database
♦ Vatican Museums, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, 16592: Lakonian black-figure cup, with Atlas, eagle and Prometheus ?
♠ Hesiod, Theogony 523-25
and set on him a long-winged eagle, which used to eat his immortal liver; but by night the liver grew as much again everyway as the long-winged bird devoured in the whole day. Greek Text
♠ Hesiod, Theogony 533
though he was angry, he ceased from the wrath which he had before. Greek Text
♠ Hesiod, Theogony 527-28
and delivered the son of Iapetus from the cruel plague, and released him from his affliction. Greek Text
♠ Hesiod, Theogony 616
but of necessity strong bands confined him. Greek Text
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Artistic sources edited by R. Ross Holloway, Elisha Benjamin Andrews Professor Emeritus, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown Univ., and Frances Van Keuren, Prof. Emerita, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Univ. of Georgia, December 2019.
Literary sources edited by Elena Bianchelli, Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, January 2022
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