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  2. Fire and Stone - Wikipedia

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    The first issue of Prometheus: Fire and Stone was released on September 10, 2014. [1] The complete collection was released on September 6, 2015 as Prometheus: The Complete Fire and Stone . The events of this series were further mentioned in the 2014 technical guide Alien: The Weyland-Yutani Report .

  3. The Progress of Railroading - Wikipedia

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    PrometheusFire; The east and west figures are meant to deal with the operational system behind railroads and the center figures represent creativity. [1] The west section is inscribed: FIRE – GREATEST OF DISCOVERIES ENABLING MAN TO LIVE IN VARIOUS CLIMATES USE MANY FOODS – AND COMPEL THE FORCES OF NATURE TO DO HIS WORK

  4. Prometheus - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, Prometheus (/ p r ə ˈ m iː θ i ə s /; Ancient Greek: Προμηθεύς, [promɛːtʰéu̯s], possibly meaning "forethought") [1] is a god of fire. [2] Prometheus is best known for defying the Olympian gods by taking fire from them and giving it to humanity in the form of technology, knowledge and, more generally ...

  5. Aethon - Wikipedia

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    Il. 2.839; oxen at Od.18.372; and an eagle at Il. 15.690 (cf. Hyginus' calling the eagle that tormented Prometheus an aethonem aquilam at Fabulae 31.5.). [2] The eagle who tormented Prometheus, Aethon, was the child of the monsters Typhon and Echidna. [3] In English, aithôn may be written Aethon, Aithon or Ethon. [4]

  6. Prometheia - Wikipedia

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    A minority of scholars believe that Prometheus the Fire-Bringer is actually the first play in the trilogy. One reason is that Prometheus Bound begins in medias res; some have observed that after the reconstructing the Bound and Unbound as the first and second play, there simply isn't enough mythic material left for a third-position Fire-Bringer.

  7. Ancient Greek flood myths - Wikipedia

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    That was the penalty that Prometheus paid for the theft of fire until Heracles afterwards released him. Prometheus had a son Deucalion. He, reigning in the regions about Phthia, married Pyrrha, the daughter of Epimetheus (the brother of Prometheus) and Pandora (the first woman fashioned by the gods). And when Zeus would destroy the men of the ...

  8. Deucalion - Wikipedia

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    Of Deucalion's birth, the Argonautica [7] (from the 3rd century BC) stated: . There [in Achaea, i.e. Greece] is a land encircled by lofty mountains, rich in sheep and in pasture, where Prometheus, son of Iapetus, begat goodly Deucalion, who first founded cities and reared temples to the immortal gods, and first ruled over men.

  9. Trick at Mecone - Wikipedia

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    Prometheus Brings Fire to Mankind, Heinrich Friedrich Füger, c. 1817. Prometheus brings fire to humanity, it having been hidden as revenge for the trick at Mecone. The trick at Mecone or Mekone (Mi-kon) was an event in Greek mythology first attested by Hesiod in which Prometheus tricked Zeus for humanity’s benefit, and thus incurred his wrath.