Exam 4: Alienation of the Human and Divine: Prometheus, Fire, and Pandora

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According to Hesiod, the trickster mentality was critical in the shaping of the universe and human society.

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Zeus allows Heracles to kill the eagle that is feasting on Prometheus's liver.

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Gilgamesh, the savage male, is tamed by a sexual encounter with Enkidu, a priest of Ishtar.

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During the Age of Silver, men's childhood lasted a hundred years.

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The fire that Prometheus gave to humans is a metaphor for all the arts of civilization.

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Zeus, in Aeschylus's interpretation, is omnipotent as well as omniscient.

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Pandora's jar can be seen as a sybmol of the womb.

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The Greek and Judeo-Christian traditions agree on seeing woman as the catalyst of humanity's historical decline.

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Among the ages of history mentioned by Hesiod are the Age of Iron and the Age of Copper.

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Hesiod claims that Prometheus is a second-generation Titan; Aeschylus identifies him as a son of Gaea.

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Hesiod may have created a revised version of an older myth in which Pandora was originally an earth goddess called "Giver of All."

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Enkidu, the savage male, is tamed through a sexual encounter with a priestess.

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Prometheus is chained to a rock by Zeus as punishment for tricking Zeus to accept bones of sacrificial animals.

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In Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, Prometheus is simply a trickster who takes joy in causing trouble for humanity and the gods.

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Deucalion and Pyrrha survive the flood in an ark, according to Greek tradition, and repopulate the earth by throwing stones over their shoulders.

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Prometheus's defiance gives Zeus an opportunity to save himself from a future downfall at the hands of Prometheus's son.

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In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the story of the universal flood

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An eponymous ancestor is the person for whom a group is named.

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Hesiod mentions four ages of history, corresponding to the four main metals.

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Aeschylus interprets Prometheus as a tyrant, whereas Hesiod sees him as a heroic rebel.

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