Prometeu e o Fogo Sagrado | MITOLOGIA GREGA

PROMETHEUS: TITAN, THIEF OF FIRE During the war between the Titans and Olympians, PROMETHEUS, he who sees ahead, allied himself with Zeus and also convinced his brother Epimetheus, he who sees behind, to join the Olympians. Later, PROMETHEUS and Epimetheus were tasked with dividing Zeus's gifts among the animals. The forgetful Epimetheus divided the gifts, but forgot to leave one for humans, which PROMETHEUS molded from primordial clay. Therefore, Athena gifted mortals with the gift of consciousness, the LOGOS, placing a butterfly, symbol of the soul, on their foreheads. PROMETHEUS's trickster nature led him to cheat in the division of the sacrifice at the meeting with Mecone, leaving the worst part for Zeus. Therefore, the king of the gods punished mortals by taking away the gift of fire, but PROMETHEUS, the labyrinthine mind, stole a flame from Mount Olympus and returned the fire of the gods to mortals. Therefore, he will be punished, chained to Mount Caucasus by the chains of Hephaestus, where a giant eagle will devour his liver every day. Until Hercules finally frees him. 📘 Chapters: 00:00 – Introduction 01:30 – Epimetheus and the gifts of Zeus 03:25 – Creation of mortals from clay 04:23 – The divine Logos 06:44 – The measure of all things 07:15 – The origin of humanity in Greek Mythology 07:36 – Clay men gazing at the stars 08:17 – Dolos, Prometheus' helper 10:13 – Mecone's encounter 12:54 – On sacrifice 13:37 – The theft of the Fire of the Gods 15:51 – The mastery of fire 16:55 – Relay of the Olympic Flame 17:52 – Prometheus chained 22:33 – The chorus of the Oceanids 23:33 – Oceanus 24:01 – Io, the cow-horned virgin 25:26 – Hermes 26:20 – Hercules breaks the chains 27:41 – Prometheus freed 28:58 – The modern Prometheus Sources: Theogony, Hesiod – translated by JAA Torrano. Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus.