Research Paper On Prometheus

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Why Prometheus is the symbol creation?
Prometheus may not be a great god who there are people respect him like Zeus or other because he is half-Titan. But there is much goodness for mankind. Anyone who not studies deeply about Greek and Mythology maybe only heard the Bible story which God who created the earth and also humans. But the fact, the Greeks tell that the first who created a man is Prometheus. "The first who created a man" Prometheus is creator who made a first man from clay.
It's also creatures such as wild animals or environment, he is human helpers who afraid those humans will be defeated by animals and he taught many skills for them. I think he’s not just father-like but he also like a teacher as this quotation “Any technological advance can be dangerous. Fire was dangerous from the start, and so (even more so) was speech - and both are still dangerous to this day - but human beings would not be human without them.”
This show he taught humans to living from how to use technology.
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Prometheus used the trick to teach humans who gave Zeus choices for choose between pile of meat and bones represented worship because he doesn’t want humans disadvantage god. Although humans were punished by Zeus but He was a human helper by stealing the fire until himself was punished too. So I think he is a father who gives a life and he is a teacher who teaches and solves problems.
“Fire as technology” Prometheus thinks if a man was punished to fall in the darkness forever, they will not live and plants not grow. So he steals the fire which can’t quench the flames to the earth. This makes humans to live goes on. So fire is the most important because when god created, he made light for the first and I think that Prometheus did not gives everything for man but he taught instead and want they learning by

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