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Myths featuring Prometheus

Explore myths where Prometheus appears across cultures, conflicts, sacred places, and recurring themes.

2 myths currently featured for Prometheus.

Heracles’ Theft of the Golden Apples of the Hesperides

🏛️ Greek MythologyHigh Atlas Mountains, MoroccoHeracles • Atlas • Eurystheus

As his eleventh labor, the hero Heracles was tasked by King Eurystheus to steal the sacred golden apples from the garden of the Hesperides. These apples, a wedding gift from Gaia to Hera, were guarded by a multi-headed dragon named Ladon and the daughters of Atlas. Through a combination of incredible strength and clever trickery involving the Titan Atlas, Heracles successfully obtained the...

Deucalion and Pyrrha Surviving the Great Flood

🏛️ Greek MythologyMount Parnassus, GreeceDeucalion • Pyrrha • Zeus

Following the corruption of the Bronze Age, Zeus decided to cleanse the earth with a massive deluge. Deucalion and Pyrrha, the only two humans who remained pious and humble, were warned by Prometheus to build an ark. After surviving the flood on Mount Parnassus, they repopulated the world by throwing stones—the 'bones' of Mother Earth—over their shoulders, which transformed into a new race of...