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The ancients by way of Plato believed that the name Prometheus derived from the Greek prefix pro- (before) + manthano (intelligence) and the agent suffix-eus, thus meaning "Forethinker". In his dialogue titled Protagoras, Plato contrasts Prometheus with his dull-witted brother Epimetheus, "Afterthinker".
The Greek word for liver, hēpar, hepat-(ἧπαρ, cf. English "hepatitis", "hepatology", etc.) is derived from the verb hēpaomai (ἠπάομαι), meaning "mend, repair". [11] While others doubt the significance to Greek medical knowledge, [12] Prometheus's name is associated with biomedical companies involved in regenerative medicine.
From Greek νέος διδύμος (neos didymos), which means "new twin", because didymium [47] separated into praseodymium and neodymium. Promethium (Pm) 61 Προμηθεύς (Prometheus) Greek "forethought" [48] mythological Named after Prometheus (a god in classical mythology), who stole the fire of heaven and gave it to mankind. [3 ...
Hesiod does not mention Prometheus in connection with the Titanomachy, but Prometheus does remain free, in the Theogony, for his deception of Zeus at Mecone and his subsequent theft of fire, for which transgressions Prometheus was famously punished by Zeus by being chained to a rock where an eagle came to eat his "immortal liver" every day ...
Clymene, the name of one or two Nereid(s), [12] 50 sea-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris. [13] [14] Clymene and her other sisters appeared to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles for his slain comrade Patroclus. [15] Clymene, an Amazon. [16] Clymene, an "ox-eyed" servant of Helen ...
In Greek mythology, Iapetus (/ aɪ ˈ æ p ɪ t ə s /; eye-AP-ih-təs; [1] Ancient Greek: Ἰαπετός, romanized: Iapetós), [2] also Japetus, is a Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaia [3] and father of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius. He was also called the father of Buphagus [4] and Anchiale [5] in other sources.
In Greek mythology, Deucalion (/ dj uː ˈ k eɪ l i ən /; Ancient Greek: Δευκαλίων) was the son of Prometheus; ancient sources name his mother as Clymene, Hesione, or Pronoia. [1] [2] He is closely connected with a flood myth in Greek mythology.
By the era of Greek philosophy in the 5th century BC, Metis had become the first deity of wisdom and deep thought, but her name originally connoted "magical cunning" and was as easily equated with the trickster powers of Prometheus as with the "royal metis" of Zeus. [2]