Vol. 4 (2012): Prometheus the Rebel
Published:
2012-11-19
This myth, both in its Prometheus Pyrophoros and Prometheus Plasticator variants, has been controversial throughout the ages. By the 19th century, Prometheus had become a symbol: that of oppressed mankind striving to break its chains. Authors like Goethe (Prometheus) or Percy B. Shelley (Prometheus Unbound) were seduced by the strength of this mythological character, whose transgression was also innovatively treated during the same century in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus.
