Prometheus the god stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on
humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle
clawed unceasingly at his liver, until Herakles freed him. For the
Greeks, the myth of Prometheus's release reflected a primordial law
of existence and the fate of humankind. Carl Kerenyi examines the
story of Prometheus and the very process of mythmaking as a
reflection of the archetypal function and seeks to discover how
this primitive tale was invested with a universal fatality, first
in the Greek imagination, and then in the Western tradition of
Romantic poetry. Kerenyi traces the evolving myth from Hesiod and
Aeschylus, and in its epic treatment by Goethe and Shelley; he
moves on to consider the myth from the perspective of Jungian
psychology, as the archetype of human daring signifying the
transformation of suffering into the mystery of the sacrifice."
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