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
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)
Titans
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In Greek mythology, the Titans were the deities who preceded the Olympians. According to the Theogony of Hesiod, they were the twelve children of the primordial deities Uranus and Gaia. The six male T
Prometheus
…In Greek mythology, Prometheus (; Ancient Greek: Προμηθεύς ) 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…
The Fall of the Titans (1596–98), a mythological painting by Dutch painter Cornelis van Haarlem.
The Mutilation of Uranus by Saturn: fresco by Giorgio Vasari and Cristofano Gherardi, c. 1560 (Sala di Cosimo I, Palazzo Vecchio)
Rhea presenting Cronus the stone wrapped in cloth
"Fall of the Titans". Oil on canvas by Jacob Jordaens, 1638.