Prometheus (mythology)

Prometheus, or Prometheas ("forethought") is the Titan chiefly honored for stealing fire from the gods in the stalk of a fennel plant and giving it to mortals for their use.

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  Prometheus being chained by Vulcan, Dirck van Baburen, 1623
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  Prometheus brings Fire to Mankind, Heinrich Friedrich Füger, c. 1817
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  Chained Prometheus, Peter Paul Rubens, 1611-1612
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  Prometheus, Gustave Moreau, 1868
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  Prométhée enchaîné (Prometheus bound), Nicolas-Sébastien Adam (1762)
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  Prometheus (ca. 1900), Reinhold Begas, Berlin