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  2. Prometheus - Wikipedia

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    Other minor details attached to the myth include: the duration of Prometheus' torment; [62] [63] the origin of the eagle that ate the Titan's liver (found in Pseudo-Apollodorus and Hyginus); Pandora's marriage to Epimetheus (found in Pseudo-Apollodorus); myths surrounding the life of Prometheus' son, Deucalion (found in Ovid and Apollonius of ...

  3. Donald Rusk Currey - Wikipedia

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    Donald Rusk Currey (January 24, 1934 – June 6, 2004) [1] was an American professor of geography.While known in academia for his extensive research and exploration of relics of the ancient Lake Bonneville in the eastern Great Basin, he was best known to the public for his controversial felling of Prometheus, the oldest living non-clonal organism known at the time, while a graduate student in ...

  4. 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.

  5. Prometheus Unbound (Shelley) - Wikipedia

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    1820 title page, C. and J. Ollier, London. Prometheus Unbound is a four-act lyrical drama by Percy Bysshe Shelley, first published in 1820. [1] It is concerned with the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus, who defies the gods and gives fire to humanity, for which he is subjected to eternal punishment and suffering at the hands of Zeus.

  6. On her walk home, Riddy runs into the grocery store woman from the premiere. Her name’s Cassandra and she’s a prophet. And now, so is Riddy.

  7. David 8 - Wikipedia

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    David 8, stylized as David 8 and commonly known simply as David, is a fictional character featured in the Alien franchise, portrayed by Michael Fassbender.Introduced in the first prequel film, Prometheus (2012), David is an android serving as a butler, maintenance man, and surrogate son to his creator, Peter Weyland, the founder of the Weyland Corporation.

  8. Heracles - Wikipedia

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    Hesiod's Theogony and Aeschylus' Prometheus Unbound both tell that Heracles shot and killed the eagle that tortured Prometheus (which was his punishment by Zeus for stealing fire from the gods and giving it to mortals). Heracles freed the Titan from his chains and his torments. Prometheus then made predictions regarding further deeds of Heracles.

  9. Prometheus Bound (Rubens) - Wikipedia

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    Prometheus Bound, a Greek play attributed to Aeschylus, but thought to have been completed by another after Aeschylus' death in 456 B.C. [2] It is possible that Prometheus Bound is the second play written by Aeschylus in a connected trilogy, followed by Prometheus lyomenos (Prometheus Unbound), of which only a few fragments have survived. [2]