Prometheus: An Ancient Greek Myth

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Before we start the topic of this essay, let me tell a story. It is an ancient Greek myth about
Prometheus. Prometheus was a great gad that stole fire from Apollo (Sun God) in order to help people have cooked food to eat and far away from disease in ram food. Then Zeus punished him to be fettered on the hangklip. And Zeus sent an eagle to gnaw Prometheus’ liver every day. But to
Zeus’ surprising, Prometheus ’liver will recovery every day. This is almost the earliest record of liver regeneration. You may be amazing about the super power of Prometheus. And you may ask is that true? I could just say I don’t know. But the regeneration ability of liver is true, although it may not so wizardly like in Prometheus.
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