Prometheus: Archetypal Image of Human Existence (Mythos: The Princeton-Bollingen Series in World Mythology)

by Carl Kerenyi (Author)

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  Paperback
  1997

  $39.25

  Prometheus the god stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at his liver, until Herakles freed him. For the Greeks, the myth of Prometheus' release reflected a primordial law of existence and the fate of humankind. The author examines the story of Prometheus.