prometheus

Question 1

Prometheus

Answer 1

titan
created humans
name means forethought
fought for the gods in war with titans

Question 2

Epimetheus

Answer 2

-titan
-prometheus brother
-created all other creatures
-name means afterthought

Question 3

Zues role in Prometheus myth

Answer 3

tasked the brothers to give earth life

Question 4

Man

Answer 4

made out of clay in the image of the gods, no natural defenses

Question 5

Athena

Answer 5

gives man reason and intelligence

Question 6

Fire

Answer 6

-Prometheus asks Zues for fire for man
-Zues says no
-Prometheus distracts the gods with a pear for “the most beautiful” which causes a fight
-Steals it in a hollow reed and gives it to man
-Zues Mad

Question 7

Hephaestus role in Prometheus myth

Answer 7

is told by zues to create women (Pandora is the first)

Question 8

Hermes role in Prometheus myth

Answer 8

gives women a “deceitful heart and lying tongue”

Question 9

Pandora

Answer 9

-Zues offers Epimetheus Pandora in marriage
- gifts them a box aswell

Question 10

The box

Answer 10

-Pandora opens it
-Releases the evils of the world and infects man
-hope flies out from the bottom of the box

Question 11

Prometheus Punishment

Answer 11

-zues asks what son will be greater than him
-prometheus knows but wont tell him
-as punishment zues chains him to a peak where a giant eagle pecks out and eats his liver every day (it grows back)