Always nice to be wanted....

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Dinesh ^club

Prometheus’ second piece of trickery is outright theft: he steals fire (which belongs to the gods) and shares it with mortals. He is famously punished for this bny being tied to a rock and having his lever pecked out by an eagle. His immortality means tht his liver grows back, so the whole grisly business can begin anew each day. Zeus is so incenses by the improvement in mortal lies which fire had brought that he decides to give us an evil to balance things out. He gets Hephaestus to mould from the earth the likeness of a young woman. The goddess Athene dressed the unnamed maiden in silver clothing and gives her a veil and golden crown, decorated with images of wild animals. When Hephaestus and Athena have finished their work, they show the ‘kakon, ant’agathoio’ – beautiful evil, the price of good – to the other gods, who realize that mortal men will have no device or remedy against her. From this woman, Hisod says, comes the whole deadly race of women. Always nice to be wanted. ~ page 11