<p>The Hellenic Saga </p><p>Gaia (Earth) <br>Uranus (Heaven) </p><p>Oceanus = Tethys </p><p>Iapetus (Titan) = Clymene&nbsp;Themis </p><p></p><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Prometheus Epimetheus = Pandora </li><li style="flex:1">Menoetius </li></ul><p>Atlas </p><p>Prometheus </p><p>• “Prometheus made humans out of earth and water, and he also gave them fire…” (Apollodorus <em>Library </em>1.7.1) </p><p>• … “and scatter-brained Epimetheus from the first was a mischief to men who eat bread; for it was he who first took of Zeus the woman, the maiden whom he had formed” (Hesiod <em>Theogony </em>ca. 509) </p><p>Prometheus and Zeus </p><p>• Zeus concealed the secret of life • Trick of the meat and fat • Zeus concealed fire • Prometheus stole it and gave it to man </p><p>• Freidrich H. Fuger, 1751 - 1818 </p><p>• Zeus ordered the creation of Pandora • Zeus chained Prometheus to a mountain </p><p>• The accounts here are many and confused </p><p>Maxfield Parish Prometheus 1919 </p><p>Prometheus Chained Dirck van Baburen 1594 - 1624 </p><p>Prometheus </p><p>Nicolas-Sébastien Adam 1705 - 1778 </p><p>Frankenstein: </p><p>The Modern Prometheus </p><p>• Novel by Mary Shelly • First published in 1818. • The first true Science Fiction novel • Victor Frankenstein is Prometheus </p><p>• As with the story of Prometheus, the novel asks about cause and effect, and about responsibility. </p><p>• Is man accountable for his creations? • Is God? • Are there moral, ethical constraints on man’s creative urges? </p><p>Mary Shelly </p><p>• “I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion. Frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavour to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world” (Introduction to the 1831 edition) <br>Did I request thee, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? </p><p>John Milton, Paradise Lost 10. 743 – 45. Printed on the inside cover of the 1818 edition. </p><p>Pandora William Waterhouse 1896 </p><p>Pandora </p><p>• The name means “all gifts” • Hephaestus made Pandora from earth and water in the shape of the goddesses </p><p>• Aphrodite gave her grace • Athena gave her skill • Hermes gave her deceit and shamelessness. • Each god gave her an evil, all in one jar </p><p>Pandora and Epimetheus </p><p>• Zeus gave Pandora to Epimetheus • Pandora opened her gift-jar and the evils that make human existence difficult were released on the world </p><p>• Only Hope remained in the jar. </p><p>• Is it the point that Hope is one of the things that plague mankind, and <br>Zeus withheld it!? </p><p>• Pandora’s ‘Box’ is a mistranslation by Erasmus </p><p></p><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Pandora </li><li style="flex:1">Deucalion </li></ul><p></p><p>• Son of Prometheus • Married Pyrrha • Zeus decided to destroy humanity with a flood • Prometheus warned Deucalion, he and Pyrrha escaped in a wooden chest </p><p>• Stones of Deucalion Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609 – 1664) </p><p>Autochthony <br>‘Born of the Earth’ </p><p>Deucalion = Pyrrha <br>Hellen Amphictyon&nbsp;Protogeneia = Zeus <br>Dorus Xuthus Aeolus </p><p>• The descendants of Hellen are the Hellenes, the <br>Greeks </p><p>• His sons divided Greece • Amphictyon became king of Athens </p><p>• We will return to him later… </p><p>Aeolus <br>Dorus </p><p></p><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Pelasgians </li><li style="flex:1">Pelasgians </li></ul><p></p><p>Xuthus </p>