| Prometheus |
| See how that boon, dear friends, For thee
is bootless found.
Say, where is any help? What aid from mortals comes? Hast thou not seen this brief and powerless life, Fleeting as dreams, with which man’s purblind race Is fast in fetters bound? Never shall counsels vain Of mortal men break through The harmony of Zeus. Aeschylus Prometheus Bound, 594 |
| The tragic figure of Prometheus, rebel against the injustice and
the divine power, constitutes the symbol of the humanity more rooted in the occidental
culture. When giving to people the fire hidden in Olympus, Zeus, lord of the gods, avenged him by chaining to a rock, where an eagle devoured his liver which, according to the legend, was regenerating continuously. Hercules killed the eagle and liberated Prometheus, whom Quiron the centaur gave his immortality Prometheus, which means "provident thinking", symbolizes not the revolt of the sense but the mind. The fire symbolizes the subversive intellect. Illustrates the human will of the intellectuality; but an intellectal life which is not "under the absolutely depency of the utility principle". |
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| Prometheus implies all the things wich forces us to know, because is not the same to understand that to know; to know is to know doing. And pushes us to know as much as our parents, more than our partens, as much as our masters, more than our masters; our vital lines... You, who are not tied to any limits, will determine by yourself, your own essence and knowledge, according to your free and universal willingness. Prometheus remains united tothe humanity, due to have received from him their knowledges and thecnicals. It was the the tragic Esquilo the first to introduce the figure of Prometheus as the incarnation of the human freedom confronted with pride... to the destiny. ... 40.000 kilometers chained;
the man who defied, in front, the gods |
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