Prometheus bound, Laconian black-figure amphoriskos C6th B.C., Vatican City Museums |
As punishment for these rebellious acts, Zeus ordered the creation of Pandora (the first woman) as a means to deliver misfortune into the house of man, or as a way to cheat mankind of the company of the good spirits. Prometheus meanwhile, was arrested and bound to a stake on Mount Kaukasos where an eagle was set to feed upon his ever-regenerating liver (or, some say, heart). Generations later the great hero Herakles came along and released the old Titan from his torture.
Prometheus was loosely identified in cult and myth with the fire-god Hephaistos and the giant Tityos.
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