Subtitle:
Archetypal image of human existence
Series Title:
Bollingen series, 'Archetypal images of Greek religion' LXV - v. I
Edition:
First Princeton paperback in the Mythos series
Volume / Part:
1
Translator:
Manheim, Ralph
Place of Publication:
Princeton, New Jersey
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Copyright Date:
1963
ISBN / SBN / ISSN:
06901907X
Media Type:
Print (Non-Serial)
Media Sub-type:
Book
Copy:
2
LoC Call Number:
BL 820 .P68 K43 1963 c.2
Accession Number:
078582
Keyword Subject Headings:
Prometheus (mythological aspects)
Theogony (Hesiod)--Greek poem
Fire (mythological aspects)
Aeschylus / Aischylos ca. 525/524-456 BC--Greek playwright
Titans (Greek deities)
Theogony (Hesiod)--Greek poem
Fire (mythological aspects)
Aeschylus / Aischylos ca. 525/524-456 BC--Greek playwright
Titans (Greek deities)
User Notes:
Paperback; xxvi + 152 pp. including an introduction, list of works cited, and an index.
Contents:
List of plates
Introduction
I. Who is Goethe's Prometheus?
II. The Titanic, and the eternity of the human race
III. The Prometheus mythologem in the 'Theogony'
IV. Archaic Prometheus mythology
V. Methodological intermezzo
VI. The world in possession of fire
VII. The fire stealer
VIII. The "Prometheus bound"
IX. Prometheus the knowing one
X. The Promethean prophecy
XI. 'Prometheus delivered'
XII. Conclusion after Goethe
Abbreviations
List of works cited
Index
