2007-06-28 14:13:57 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
No. It seems a rather cruel & unusual punishment to have his liver eaten (with some fava beans & a nice Chianti...? Sorry, Silence reference...) daily just because he wanted to give humans fire.
I don't think compassion should be punished. But the gods do tend to get angry when disobeyed...
As they say, play with fire & you get burned...(though technically burning would have been a more fitting punishment than the one he got I suppose...eye for an eye not liver for a fire...)
2007-06-29 03:12:44 · answer #1 · answered by amp 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I think the Gods were cruel I felt so bad for Promethius Zeus punished him!! I read that Zeus sends a woman to increase man's suffering because of Promethius... HAHAHA the woman again hahaha plain and simple the Gods were cruel hahaha
2007-06-28 14:26:48 · answer #2 · answered by Rita 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
NO he got what he got because that is the way that life is, if this was so then why do supposedly really really good people lots of times get the exact same things or worse then those that are suppose to be playing with fire, immorality is nothing less then imortality in some ways, not to say that this is always the best way just one way another is to be a really supposedly moral sacrifice a martyr.
2007-06-28 14:30:57 · answer #3 · answered by Friend 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure the Greeks thought so. Those myths weren't just to explain things, they were supposed to teach lessons too, like all fairy tales ^^ Besides, eventually Hercules saves him so it's not like it went on forever like it was meant to.
Also, in the world of stories there have been worse punishments and other variations of this one. I read a book where an old man was chained to a clock where when the hour 12 was struck (twice a day) two little clock figures came out and picked away at his eyes (they too always grew back) and his only redemption was if he could trick someone into staying close enough so that the clock figures would go after them instead of him.
2007-06-28 14:25:27 · answer #4 · answered by Le Petit Fleur 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This story shows how insistently the fatherly, authoritative figure of god clings to the human psyche until the abomination if the psyche itself due to mass neurosis and multiple sclerosis and the psyche can no longer project nor divulge or regress.
2007-06-28 14:26:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question might perhaps be: Is man an aberration on the face of the earth?
The moral of the story of Prometheus is strikingly similar to that of Genesis and the apple. "Ye shall be like Gods".
Man creates God, God banishes man from paradise. Man creates psychoanalysis - psychoanalysis confirms he is a freak of nature.
2007-06-28 14:20:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gotta love a good pyromaniac.
2007-06-28 14:55:50 · answer #7 · answered by guru 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, he did. Rules are rules. Ask Adam and Eve. Pax - C
2007-06-28 14:17:03 · answer #8 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Steal from Zues and get away with it? I think not!!
2007-06-28 14:24:48 · answer #9 · answered by Candii JoJo is a groovy chick. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋