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Chains of Prometheus

Objects · Myth & story

Named bonds of the Prometheus story, fixing the fire-thief to the rock. Not Gleipnir, not a generic rope, and not adamant as a material dump.

Hellenic religion

  • Chains of Prometheus appears in Hellenic religion.

    Hesiod’s Theogony has Zeus bind Prometheus with unbreakable bonds and a driven shaft. A named binding in that cosmogony, not Gleipnir and not Tartarus restated as a place.

    from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE

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