Prometheus
in mythology, the son of the Titan Japetus, was brother to Atlas and Epimetheus, and surpassed all M M PROMETHEUS AND THE OCEANIDS mankind in cunning. He ridiculed the gods, and deceived Jupiter himself. To punish Prometheus and the rest of mankind, Jupiter took fire away from the earth; but Prometheus climbed to the heavens, by the assistance of Minerva, and stole fire from the chariot of the sun. Jupiter ordered Vulcan to make a woman of clay and endowing her with life sent her to Prometheus. Prometheus suspecting the snare, induced his brother to marry her, when the god, still more irritated, caused this wily mortal PROMISSORY NOTE PROPERTIUS to be tied to a rock on Mount Caucasus, the words of the poet of the Eneid 5 Italic. where, for 30,000 years, a vulture was to feed on his liver. He was delivered 30 years afterward, by Hercules.