Prometheus

Prometheus
was the titan of forethought(future-telling) and crafty counsel who was entrusted with the task of molding men out of clay. His attempts at trying to better the lives of his creations(men) often brought him into fights with Zeus. At first he tricked the gods into leaving out the best part of a sacrificing dinner, he used their meat for the feasting of mankind. Then, when Zeus had fire, he stole it from heaven and delivered it to regular mortal hidden inside a fennel-stalk.As punishment for these mistakes, Zeus ordered the creation of [|Pandora](first woman) as a way to deliver misfortune into mankind and as a way to cheat man of good spirits.While Pandora was bringing misfortune to man, Prometheus was "arrested" then bound to a tree on Mount Kaukasos where and eagle was to feed upon his liver, his liver would regenerate frequently, so the eagle never stopped feeding on him. Years later, the great hero, [|Hercules] rescued the Titan from his torture. His brother, [|Epimetheus] was the titan of afterthought and he was included in the making of mankind. together the two created the man's conscious.

 

Connection to Lightning Thief:
No, connection other than this quote said by Chiron. Percy asks what the world was like before gods, and Chiron goes on to say that it wasn't until the invention of fire (via Prometheus) and the rule of Zeus that humans advanced at all."Even I am not old enough to remember that, child, but I know it was a time of darkness and savagery for mortals. Kronos, the lord of the Titans, called his reign the Golden Age because men lived innocent and free of all knowledge. But that was mere propaganda. The Titan king cared nothing for your kind except as appetizers or a source of cheap entertainment. It was only in the early reign of Lord Zeus, when Prometheus, the good Titan brought fire to mankind, that your species began to progress, and even then Prometheus was branded a radical thinker."

Bibliography:
"Prometheus and how the Hellenes were created." Hellenica, Information about Greece and Cyprus, Michael Lahanas. 19 Sept. 2010. "Prometheus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 19 Sept. 2010. .

Riordan, Rick. The Lightning Thief. New York: Hyperion Books, 2006.

 Rouse, WHD. Gods, Heroes, and Men of Ancient Greece. New York: New American Library, 2001.

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