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The statue is 18 ft (5.5 m) tall and weighs 8 tons. [13] It depicts the Greek legend of the Titan Prometheus, who was the son of the Titan Iapetus and the Oceanid Clymene, brought fire to mankind by stealing it from the Chariot of the Sun, which resulted in Zeus chaining Prometheus and sending an eagle to prey upon his continually regenerating ...
Paul Manship's highly recognizable bronze gilded Prometheus statue, commissioned in 1934, is located at the western end of the sunken plaza. [308] [395] It stands 18 feet (5.5 m) high and weighs 8 short tons (7.1 long tons). [75] The statue depicts the Greek legend of the Titan Prometheus recumbent, bringing fire to mankind. The statue is ...
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 ...
Prometheus Bringing Fire to Earth is an outdoor sculpture by Icelandic artist Nína Sæmundsson, installed in MacArthur Park, in Los Angeles, California, United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] References
Atlas and the Hesperides by John Singer Sargent (1925).. The etymology of the name Atlas is uncertain. Virgil took pleasure in translating etymologies of Greek names by combining them with adjectives that explained them: for Atlas his adjective is durus, "hard, enduring", [9] which suggested to George Doig that Virgil was aware of the Greek τλῆναι "to endure"; Doig offers the further ...
Jakov Brdar (born 22 April 1949) is a Slovene sculptor of Bosnian descent. He is the author of many public statues and sculptures in Ljubljana.In 1998, he received the Prešeren Fund Award for the sculpture group Pridiga ptičem (Sermon to the Birds, 1997).
'Deception, Guile, Deceit') [1] is a figure who appears in an Aesopic fable by the Roman fabulist Gaius Julius Phaedrus, where he is an apprentice of the Titan Prometheus. According to the Roman mythographer Hyginus, Dolus was the offspring of Aether and Terra (Earth), [2] while Cicero has Dolus being the offspring of Aether and Dies (Day). [3]
Prometheus Bound and the Oceanids (German:Prometheus, beklagt von den Okeaniden) is an 1879 marble sculpture by German sculptor Eduard Müller, located at Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Germany. [1] Its subject is from the play Prometheus Bound , traditionally attributed to Aeschylus .