Titan culture-hero who defied Zeus by stealing fire and giving it to humans, enabling civilization. His punishment—chained to a rock while an eagle devoured his immortally regenerating liver—became the supreme image of noble suffering for humanity's benefit. Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound made him the archetype of the rebel intellectual.
Archetypal figure of transgressive creativity; his myth grounds Western thinking about the tension between divine authority and human progress, technology, and the price of knowledge.
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