Prometheus
Family: Titans · Role: son of Iapetus · First appears: Hesiod’s Works and Days · Part 1
Prometheus is a Titan and the son of Iapetus. In Hesiod’s Works and Days, Zeus hid the means of life from men because Prometheus had deceived him; Prometheus then stole fire from Zeus for men in a hollow fennel-stalk.
Afterwards, Epimetheus accepted Zeus’s gift despite Prometheus’s warning not to take it. In The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae, Deucalion is identified as the son of Prometheus and Pronoea.
Relationship record
Life events
- Zeus hid the means of life from men because Prometheus deceived him.(Hesiod’s Works and Days · Part 1)
- With: Zeus
- “But Zeus in the anger of his heart hid it, because Prometheus the crafty deceived him”
- Prometheus stole fire from Zeus for men.(Hesiod’s Works and Days · Part 1)
- With: Zeus
- “that the noble son of Iapetus stole again for men from Zeus the counsellor in a hollow fennel-stalk”
- Epimetheus accepted Zeus’s gift despite Prometheus’s warning.(Hesiod’s Works and Days · Part 1)
- With: Epimetheus
- “And Epimetheus did not think on what Prometheus had said to him, bidding him never take a gift of Olympian Zeus, but to send it back for fear it might prove to be something harmful to men. But he took the gift”
- Deucalion was identified as the son of Prometheus and Pronoea.(The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 1–20)
Hesiod’s Works and Days · Part 1
- parent: Iapetus “the noble son of Iapetus”
The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 1–20
- child: Deucalion “Deucalion was the son of Prometheus and Pronoea”
Also listed in Titans — Minor Figures
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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.