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Prometheus

deity earth Greek corroborated · 8

Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #406 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.

↻ synthesized from 8 sources

When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 2020
Historical notes
A Titan in Greek mythology.

Relationships

co occurs with
Demeter, Agathos Daimon, Tethys, Plutus, Iasion, Thetis, Arke, Manes, Aṣ̌i, Cotys, Boreas, Athena, Hephaestus, Achilles, Themis, Paris, Éris, Calchas, Nemesis, Helios, harpies, Stymphalian Birds, Aphrodite, Hera, Cronus
parent of
Tyche
syncretized with
Ithas
consort of
Asia, Hesione
sibling of
Epimetheus, Menoetius, Atlas
allied with
Nature, Mercury, Oceanus, Io, Oceanic Nymphs, Ione, Panthea
enemy of
Hermes, Zeus, Caucasian Eagle
child of
Iapetus, Clymene

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Mentioned by

Sources

wikipedia (6)
  1. List of Greek mythological creatures
  2. Tyche
  3. Arke
  4. Asia (Oceanid)
  5. Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists
  6. Trojan War
encyclopedia (2)
  1. Aeschylus (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed
  2. Argonauts (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed

Source passages

“She has been described as a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, thus one of the Oceanids, or of Zeus, or even Prometheus. She was connected with Nemesis and Agathos Daimon ("good spirit").”

#10614 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“In Eumelus of Corinth's lost epic poem the Titanomachy which chronicled the battle between the Olympians and the Titans, it seems that the messenger of the Titans was called Ithas or Ithax, a figure that was identified with Prometheus.”

#27655 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“According to Apollodorus, Asia was the wife of the Titan Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius although Hesiod gave the name of another Oceanid, Clymene, as their mother. Herodotus recorded the tradition that the continent Asia was named after Asia whom he called wife of Prometheus”

#27741 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“glorious bower," in which Mercury, along with Prometheus and a personification of Nature, ushered in the dance of the masquing courtiers, who were twelve "Sons of Nature."”

#38075 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Zeus came to learn from either Themis or Prometheus, after Heracles had released him from the Caucasus, that, like his father Cronus, he would be overthrown by one of his sons.”

#42896 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat