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 |
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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 ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (184 p.) :; 16 plates |
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