Behold Prometheus, thief of fire, daring champion of mankind, opponent of Zeus's will. His ghastly fate is to be chained for generations to a barren rock, where an eagle pecks at his liver day after ...

THE third episode of the Prometheus begins with the sudden and unannounced entrance of Io. She is an innocent maiden, daughter of Inachos, an Argive river-god. Being wooed by Zeus, she excited the ...

For the ancient Greeks the liver had an important role in divine and spiritual daily life: was the center of the soul and source of emotions.

On the beach near Carrara, Italy, not far from where his body was washed ashore in July, 1822, a colossal monument will be erected to the poet Shelley. It is to be a figure of Prometheus, exceeding ...

WE know distressingly little, we are eager to learn more, of the childhood of the Hellenic race. The Homeric poems offer us, as it were, a glimpse of a landscape seen by a flash of lightning. What ...