Prometheus

Prometheus


 * Prometheus**


 * Prometheus was a Titian that was born to Iapetus and Gaea and was the cousin of Zeus and Hera. The Titians were the first to live on Earth and Prometheus liked to play with clay and he decide to make some little people and showed the idea to his cousin Zeus. The liked the idea and breathed life into the little people and placed them on Earth. The people were later named humans. The humans started making sacrifices to the gods and Prometheus told the humans that they could play tricks on the gods. So they put a sack of bones with and steak on top in the offering along with and bag of real meat.**
 * Zeus chose the sack of bones with a steak on top. Zeus realized that I was bones instead of meat and got angry. Zeus punished the humans by taking fire away from Earth and the humans were left on a cold Earth. The humans realized that Prometheus had tricked them into tricking the Gods and had been punished because of it. Prometheus then felt sorry for the humans and went to Mt.Olympus and stole the fire back and bestowed it on mankind for his use and benefit. Because he did this Zeus order him to be chained to a rock for life and an eagle would pick his liver. This punishment was so harsh because his liver would regenerate every night. 30,000 years later Zeus’s son Hercules freed Prometheus from the punishment and killed the bird. They allowed Prometheus back in Mt.Olympus but he had to where the chains and rock while he reside in Mt.Olympus.**


 * This story is important because it gives a lot of information about the past and what Roman or other lives where like back in A.D.**

Questions to Know
1.What was Prometheus's punishment for stealing the fire from Mt.Olympus? 2.What were the humans made of?