Prometheus : : Archetypal Image of Human Existence /

Prometheus : : Archetypal Image of Human Existence / / Carl Kerényi.

Prometheus the god stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at his liver, until Herakles freed him. For the Greeks, the myth of Prometheus's release reflected a primordial law of existence and the fate of huma...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
VerfasserIn:
Kerényi, Carl,
TeilnehmendeR:
Manheim, Ralph.
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1998
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology ; 642
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Physical Description:1 online resource (184 p.) :; 16 plates
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF PLATES
  • INTRODUCTION
  • I Who Is Goethe's Prometheus?
  • II The Titanic, and the Eternity of the Human Race
  • III The Prometheus Mythologem in the Theogony'
  • IV Archaic Prometheus Mythology
  • V Methodological Intermezzo
  • VI The World in Possession of Fire
  • VII The Fire Stealer
  • VIII The 'Prometheus Bound'
  • IX Prometheus the Knowing One
  • X The Promethean Prophecy
  • XI 'Prometheus Delivered'
  • XII Conclusion after Goethe
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • LIST OF WORKS CITED
  • INDEX

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