The Metamorphoses of Ovid

Prometheus

Family: Titans · Role: son of Iapetus; creator of man · First appears: Fable 2

Life events

  • Prometheus fashions Man from earth tempered with water in the image of the Gods.(Fable2)
    • “the son of Iapetus fashioned after the image of the Gods, who rule over all things.”

Fable 2

  • with Minerva (Prometheus forms man and Minerva animates him.) “Prometheus moulds earth tempered with water, into a human form, which is animated by Minerva.”
  • parent: Iapetus (Prometheus is identified in the preceding account as the son of Iapetus.) “or whether the Earth, being newly made, and but lately divided from the lofty æther, still retained some atoms of its kindred heaven, which, tempered with the waters of the stream, the son of Iapetus fashioned after the image of the Gods, who rule over all things.”

Fable 9

  • child: Deucalion “Because Prometheus was the father of Deucalion and Epimetheus of Pyrrha; Prometheus and Epimetheus being the sons of Iapetus.”
  • parent: Iapetus “Prometheus and Epimetheus being the sons of Iapetus.”
  • siblings with Epimetheus “Prometheus and Epimetheus being the sons of Iapetus.”

Fable 10

  • child: Deucalion “Upon that, the son of Prometheus soothes the daughter of Epimetheus with {these} gentle words, and says, “Either is my discernment fallacious, or the oracles are just, and advise no sacrilege.”

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