Prometheus Archetypal Image of Human Existence

Name: Prometheus Archetypal Image of Human Existence
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ISBN: 9780691019079

ISBN-10: 069101907X

ISBN-13: 9780691019079

Edition: 1998 (Revised)

Authors: Carl Kerï¿½nyi, Ralph Manheim, Carl Kerenyi

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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 Kereacute;nyi 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. Kereacute;nyi traces the evolving myth from Hesiod and Aeschylus, and in its epic treatment by…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/30/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



List of Plates


Introduction



Who Is Goethe's Prometheus?



The Titanic, and the Eternity of the Human Race



The Prometheus Mythologem in the 'Theogony'



Archaic Prometheus Mythology



Methodological Intermezzo



The World in Possession of Fire



The Fire Stealer



The 'Prometheus Bound'



Prometheus the Knowing One



The Promethean Prophecy



'Prometheus Delivered'



Conclusion after Goethe


Abbreviations


List of Works Cited


Index