MALASIQUI AGNO VALLEY COLLEGE

Malasiqui, Pangasinan

Al Sherrie I. Pinlac Ms. Rufina Palaganas

BSEIII-B Instructor

Prometheus is a Titan In Greek mythology, best known as the benefactor who

brought fire to mankind. Prometheus sided with Zeus and the ascending
Olympia gods in the vast cosmological struggle against Cronus and the other
Titans.

Prometheus was therefore on the conquering side of the cataclysmic war of the
Greek gods, the Titanomachy, where Zeus and the Olympian gods ultimately
defeated Cronus and the other Titans. Prometheus and Io Prometheus, a Titan,
was given the responsibility of creating humankind by Zeus. Prometheus was
especially meticulous about his construction of the human being, wanting to
make the humans as godlike as possible. Thus he gave his humans an upright
posture, molded his preferred shape into clay, and breathed life into the
figures, creating the first humans

Prometheus was proud of his creation, and watched over the humans. He
noticed that at night the humans were exposed, cold, and powerless. Pitying
his creations, he travels to the sun, where he lights a torch and brings fire
down to the earth. He bestows the knowledge of fire to the humans

Zeus is extremely displeased. He resents the advantage Prometheus has given

man, and decides to punish Prometheus appropriately. Prometheus is chained
to a rock, and every morning an eagle tears out his liver, only to have it grow
back that night. The eagle comes back the next day, and the process continues.

One day while tied to the rock, Prometheus encounters a cow that speaks like a
woman. This strange figure reveals herself as Io, and proceeds to tell
Prometheus her story. Once one of Zeus’s lovers, she was a very beautiful lady.
However, Zeus’s wife Hera suspected the relationship, and Zeus, frantic to
cover up his infidelity, turns Io into a cow. She has wandered about as a cow
ever since, but upon meeting Io Prometheus gives her a prophecy.

He foresees that Io will wander for a long time in her cow body, but when she
reaches the Nile River Zeus will restore her body and give her a son. This son is
Hercules, who will give Prometheus himself his freedom
The Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley, wrote the famous version of her short
novel in the 19th century. It was published in 1818; two years before Percy
Shelley's above mentioned play. It has endured as one of the most frequently
revisited literary themes in twentieth century film and popular reception with
few rivals for its sheer popularity among even established literary works of art.,
thus bestowing life through the application and technology of medical science
rather than by the natural acts of reproduction. The short novel has been
adapted into many films and productions ranging from the early versions
with Boris Karloff to later versions featuring Kenneth Branagh, among others.

Benji Taylor writing in an extensive three-part essay on the science fiction film
titled Prometheus, published between 22 June 2012 and 17 July 2012,
identified the eight key themes in understanding the film as including: "Aliens
Seeded Life On Earth," "Insignificance and Futility," "Interwoven Notions of
Creation and Destruction," "Parental Issues," "The Nature of the Soul,"
"Existential Loss," and "Science and Religio] Of these themes covered in the
film, Taylor identifies that only the theme of "Parental Issues" appears to have a
general reference point to the myth of Prometheus stating that in the
"mythology between the Titan Prometheus and the chief Olympian Zeus but on
a more global level it's an echo of the tribulation embodied in the Titanomachy
-- the archetypal war between parent and child which was the great 'War of the
Titans and Olympians' that shook the Greek mythological world to its core.

Io was the princess of Argos, who Zeus fell in love with. To try to
keep Hera from noticing, he covered the world with a thick blanket of clouds.
However, as soon as Hera saw that, she immediately became suspicious. She
came down from Mount Olympus and began dispersing the clouds. Zeus did
some quick thinking and changed Io's form from a lovely maiden; so, as the
clouds dispersed, Hera found Zeus standing next to a white heifer. He then
swore that he had never seen the cow before and that it had just sprang right
out of the earth. Seeing right through this, Hera faked liking the cow so much
that she wanted to have it as a present. As turning such a reasonable request
down would have given the whole thing away, Zeus presented her with the cow.
She sent the cow away and arranged Argus Panoptes to watch over it. Since
Argus had a hundred eyes and could have some of them sleep while keeping
others awake, he made for a fine watchman.
Desperate, Zeus sent Hermes to fetch Io. Disguised as a shepherd, Hermes had
to employ all his skill as a musician and storyteller to gain Argus' confidence
and lull him to sleep. Once asleep, Hermes killed Argus; later, Hera took his
eyes and set them into the tail of her favorite bird, the peacock. While Io was
now free, Hera sent the mother of all gadflies to sting the still bovine Io. The
ghost of Argus pursued her as well. This pushed her towards madness and in
her efforts to escape, she wandered the world. During her journeys, she came
across Prometheus while chained, who gave her hope. He predicted that
although she would have to wander for many years, she would eventually be
changed back into human form and would bear a child. He predicted that a
descendant of this child would be a great hero and would set him free; his
predictions came true. Because of her journeys, many geographical features
were named after her, including the Ionian Sea, and the Bosporus (which
means ford of the cow). She eventually reached the Nile where Zeus restored
her human form.