Mount Kazbek
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Mount Kazbek or Mount Kazbegi is a dormant stratovolcano and one of the major mountains of the Caucasus, located in Georgia, just south of the border with Russia.
Mount Kazbegi
19th-century postcard of the Georgian Military Road near Mount Kazbegi
Mount Kazbek from the outside of the Gergeti Trinity Church
Mount Kazbek,
Prometheus
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In Greek mythology, Prometheus is a Titan responsible for aiding and creating humanity in its earliest days. He defied the Olympian gods by taking fire from The Gods and Mount Olympus and giving it to
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…was determinate with 5mm accuracy. Defined height is 5053.927m. Mount Kazbegi is associated in Georgian folklore with Amirani, the Georgian version of Prometheus, who was chained on the mountain in punishment for having stolen fire from the gods and giving it to mortals. The location of his imprisonment later…
Prometheus tortured by the eagle (black-figure kylix, 560-550 BC, Vatican Museums)
Prometheus Brings Fire by Heinrich Friedrich Füger. Prometheus brings fire to mankind as told by Hesiod, with its having been hidden as revenge for the trick at Mecone.
Prometheus depicted in a sculpture by Nicolas-Sébastien Adam, 1762 (Louvre)
The Torture of Prometheus, painting by Salvator Rosa (1646–1648)