#Prometheus chained

[hacked-wtsdz]

Not a fan of modern greek myths retellings largely because they redesign the characters and the relationships from a modernised viewpoint and the entire story loses its original connection to reality.

Myths were a way of thinking. They were a way of explaining the world that surrounded people, not just stories like the ones we create for entertainment.

Persephone being kidnapped by Hades relates to the real world in the way that it’s a story about death. Death takes a daughter away from her mother’s arms, a mother’s inconsolable grief barrens the earth. Of course when it becomes a story about eloping with a secret hot lover in rebellion against traditional gender roles, the whole connection to the original concept of death gets lost.

Feminist retellings sadly often suck because instead of seeing greek goddesses and gods as manifestations of forces of nature, life, death, love, etc, they turn them human. The world is cast aside for the creation of a character. To me personally the original concept was much more interesting and reflected a lot more about humanity than, well, humanising gods.

Not a new take but I feel like it bears repeating that modern retellings do not dive deep enough into the original material on a scholarly level and do not treat the original material like something other than an equal literary form, when in fact it isn’t that.

[dreamconsumer]

Prometheus Chained by John Flaxman.

[hygieiapides-the-vulgar]

Prometheus eagle became sparrow

Ar the edge fo the world on a forbidden cliff, chained prometheus lies

An eagle comes to tear his liver,

And deliver pain unto him

For promethudhs stole fire from the gods

But one day,

The gods cut the budget

And the eagle was gone, replaced:

By a sparrow

“Dangit” the sparrow thiught “how im supposef to twsr out thid man’s liver with my tiny feet?”

The sparrow then treiend calli gb his bosses for advice

[clonerightsagenda]

*crawls out of the Teams meeting covered in blood* I'm the HOA president now

[mythologypaintings]

Prometheus Being Chained by Vulcan

Artist: Dirck van Baburen (Dutch, c 1594/1595–1624)

Date: 1623

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Description

The painting represents a tale from Greco-Roman mythology. Mercury, the messenger of the gods, watches the club-footed blacksmith god, Vulcan, punish the bold and cunning Titan Prometheus for stealing fire from the gods and giving it to mortals. Prometheus's punishment is to be bound to a rock and to have his liver consumed daily by an eagle, which appears partially at the top left.

[eincline]

Prometheus by Reinhold Begas

Wrapped in chains and walled in, the marble Prometheus by Reinhold Begas languished for decades in the Akademie building at Pariser Platz near the Brandenburg Gate.

After he enraged Zeus, the hero of Greek culture and mythology was tied up and perpetually tortured by an eagle. Resigned to his earthly fate as an artwork, he waited and remained inaccessible until he was discovered in 1990 and set free five years later.

Akademie der Künste

[grntaire]

thinking abt the poem a silence haunts me by todd boss (set to music by jake runestad) based off of the unsent letter beethoven wrote to his brothers where he laments about his increasing deafness and kind of want to go play in traffic

[sarafangirlart]

How I imagine Pronoea and Prometheus’s last interaction before he left to steal fire knowing he’ll be severely punished:

[lamiaprigione]

Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to man For this he was chained to a rock and tortured for eternity

Oppenheimer (2023)

[lungsareforlove]

what if ares is the last boss on olympus. I might. I might not be able to survive it.

[mars-ipan]

do you guys think aziraphale heard the myth of prometheus for the first time and lost his mind a little

[dreamconsumer]

Prometheus Chained. By John Flaxman.

[honey-and-sims]

I MADE MY FIRST POSE GUYS AAAAAAAAAH!!!! AAAAAH look at Winifred & Lawrence being proud of me in the background too hehehe

holy shit holy shit thank you to my friends for the help eeeeeep

ok now to make 9573857 more poses for the next scene 🫡

[bugwolfsstuff]

According to Microsoft Word the Prometheus and Leo shot takes seven minutes to read and 11 minutes to read out loud.

It is not even finished yet.

I read through it, highlighting bits i wanted to change because its been a long time since i opened the thing and....

All that yellow is the stuff i need to edit....

Its not even finished

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Here's the parts I do like tho:

Zeus did not return the smile. Sometimes Prometheus, in his endless free time, ponders if Hagno taught that boy manners.  Ever the social butterfly, Aidoneus — or Hades, as he prefers, turned invisible and left without so much of a greeting. 

He's been told before that he's too soft on humanity. The other gods mocked him for sacrificing everything to gift them with flame. But the mortals are as much as his children as Aidôs and Deucalion are. Wouldn't you feel the same kind of affection for your own creation?  

This entire interaction:

"Apollo was given a prophecy years ago—"  "—Is he okay? Was he given nectar afterwards?" Prometheus asked innocently, "I know just how tiresome visions and prophecies are on the immortal body. He's a young boy, so—"  "He's fine!" Zeus snapped. It seemed that Prometheus was burning through his patience quickly.  "Good."  Prometheus smiled innocently, annoying Zeus by taking an interest in things he deemed 'unimportant' (Prometheus disagreed with that sentiment: nothing or nobody is truly unimportant) or feigned ignorance were the few harmless ways he got small revenge. He watched Zeus scowl with disguised amusement. It reminded him of a spoiled child being told no. 

This part I have to give context on why I like it is because throughout the shot Prometheus refers to Zeus as many epithets but despite all the sass this is the first time it's more of a negative epithet (of war/warlike) and from then on it's usually son of Kronos:

'To kill a foe that won't run. One unlike any other you've faced before.' Zeus Areius had said. 

This part I love even tho it's not even part of the fic yet, just a scrap I have set aside for until the part it belongs to is written:

You, Klytotekhnês, couldn't defeat a titan." Prometheus said.   "I know," "but I have to try."

[orangeisthecolorofblood]

one day soon i will have washed enough plates to BECOME dish nirvana in and of itself and any plate placed into my hands will either shatter to dust instantly or immediately become as clean as the day it was created

[grntaire]

have you guys heard of choral music before. i think this runestad guy is onto something