CLAS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Lightning
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Eats his own children because he"s paranoid one of them will overcome him. Causes great suffering to rhea who goes to her parents for help and her mom o o agrees to help. Zeus and promethius --> through freeing prometheus, zeus shows he wants to o o honor his son o o o o. Prometheus decides he wants to take over zeus by way of mental game while the humans and gods are watching. His method to trick zeus by wrapping something bad in something that looks really good. Zeus punishes him for this trick by taking fire away from everybody. Since everybody is watching and zeus isn"t happy with how he is portraying himself as a role model. By taking away fire, zeus tries to take away something that can be used violently. Prometheus steals the fire and gives it to humans. Prometheus tries his trick-fashions something to look like a really good woman o.