1. prometheus - Noun
2. Prometheus - Proper noun
The son of Iapetus (one of the Titans) and Clymene, fabled by the poets to have surpassed all mankind in knowledge, and to have formed men of clay to whom he gave life by means of fire stolen from heaven. Jupiter, being angry at this, sent Mercury to bind Prometheus to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture preyed upon his liver.
Source: Webster's dictionary18th and 19th centuries Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1818) has come to define Gothic fiction in the Romantic period. Source: Internet
A 2012 three-part essay on the science fiction film titled Prometheus identified the eight key themes in understanding the film, with only “Parental Issues” appearing to have a solid connection to the myth of Prometheus. Source: Internet
Aeschylus, Suppliants frg. 202, as cited by Parker, Polytheism and Society at Athens, p. 142. Pausanias recorded a few other religious sites in Greece devoted to Prometheus. Source: Internet
According to the second, Prometheus, goaded by the pain of the tearing beaks, pressed himself deeper and deeper into the rock until he became one with it. Source: Internet
After humans received the stolen gift of fire from Prometheus, an angry Zeus decides to give humanity a punishing gift to compensate for the boon they had been given. Source: Internet
According to these sources, Prometheus fashioned humans out of clay. Source: Internet