“Prométhée” by Jean Delville

“Prométhée” by Jean Delville. 1907. oil on canvas, 500 × 250 cm. Brussels: Université Libre de Bruxelles.

From Hesiod’s Theogony:

(ll. 561-584) So spake Zeus in anger, whose wisdom is everlasting; and from that time he was always mindful of the trick, and would not give the power of unwearying fire to the Melian (21) race of mortal men who live on the earth. But the noble son of Iapetus [i.e. Prometheus] outwitted him and stole the far-seen gleam of unwearying fire in a hollow fennel stalk. And Zeus who thunders on high was stung in spirit, and his dear heart was angered when he saw amongst men the far-seen ray of fire. Forthwith he made an evil thing for men as the price of fire;

• Hesiod, Theogony, H. G. Evelyn-White, Ed., G. P. Putnam’s Sons, Heinemann, 1914.
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    Author                   = {Hesiod},
    Editor                   = {Hugh G. Evelyn-White},
    Publisher                = {G. P. Putnam's Sons, Heinemann},
    Year                     = {1914},
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   London
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   1914
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   print, xlviii, 657, 8 p.
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   with an English translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White.
   "Contains practically all that remains of the post-Homeric and pre-academic epic poetry"--Pref.
   Includes index.
   Bibliography: p. xliii-xlviii.
  Subjects:
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   Hymns, Greek (Classical)--Translations into English
   Hesiod--Translations into English
   Gods, Greek--Poetry
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Prometheus was a cunning trickster, in much the same way tricksters from other mythologies have: Loki (Norse), and Raven/Coyote (Native American) for example.

You can read Æschilus’ Promoetheus Bound here:

• W. G. Aeschylus; Headlam Clinton E. S; Headlam, The plays of Æschylus, London : G. Bell, 1909.
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    Author                   = {Aeschylus; Headlam, Clinton E. S; Headlam, Walter George},
    Publisher                = {London : G. Bell},
    Year                     = {1909},
    Note                     = {Introduction. Prometheus bound. The Persians. The seven against Thebes. The suppliants. Agamemnon. Choephoroe. Eumenides},
  
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