The story of Prometheus is featured in the book entitled Stories of Old Greece by Emma M. Firth first published 1895. In common belief he developed into a master craftsman, and in this connection he was associated with fire and the creation of mortals. Prometheus, in Greek religion, one of the Titans, the supreme trickster, and a god of fire.

In Greek mythology, the Titan Prometheus had a reputation as being something of a clever trickster and he famously gave the human race the gift of fire and the skill of metalwork, an action for which he was punished by Zeus, who ensured everyday that an eagle ate the liver of the Titan as he was helplessly chained to a rock. Prometheus was the son of the first generation Titan Iapetus and the Oceanid Clymene, making Prometheus brother to … The name of the elder of these brothers was Prometheus, or Forethought; for he was always thinking of the future and making things ready for what might happen to-morrow, or next week, or next year, or it may be in a hundred years to come. His intellectual side was emphasized by the apparent meaning of his name, Forethinker.

The story of Prometheus begins in the time of the Titans, a period of time prior to the emergence of Zeus and the other Olympian gods, for Prometheus was a Titan god. Prometheus and Zeus Prometheus was one of the Titans, who at some point were sent to Tartarus by the enraged Zeus who didn’t accept the Titans’s fighting against him in …