Exert Myths And Legends: The Story Of Prometheus

In the story of Prometheus, from the exert Myths and Legends, by James Baldwin, Prometheus wanted to help the world of men to be a better place. On his conquest for improvements he wanted to bring fire to mankind. Prometheus asked Zeus if he may bring fire to men. Zeus sternly said no. Zeus believed that man would upraise against the gods if given the chance and fire would help them. Prometheus ended up bringing fire to man anyway, that angered Zeus and he planned on punishing both man and Prometheus. Zeus creates Pandora who punished man with her curiosity, by releasing all the troubles into the world. Pandora only managed to capture foreboding. Prometheus was however directly punished by the gods for stealing fire. He was chained to the top of a mountain where he was
These ideas have a larger impact today than what is visible on the surface.

If you look at American money there is latin written on it most if not all of the time. The five dollar bill says e pluribus meaning “out of many”. Every state even has a latin phrase they use to represent them. Ohio’s latin motto is “apud Deum autem omnia possibilia sunt.” meaning “with god all things are possible”. The world today can’t truly be what it is without the substance of Greek and Roman mythology. One of the most beloved cartoons is Spongebob, in this cartoon, the King of the sea is Neptune/Poseidon and that is what the sea creatures call their King.

Many things created are used have great relations to mythology. There is a new virtual reality system that goes under the name of Prometheus. That is rather symbolic. Prometheus helped man advance in technology and this name choice is a comparison of the virtual reality pushing the world further. Apollo, the famous missions to the moon are named after the sun god. Apollo riding his chariot across the sun seems like a real inspiration to us