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all his other eaten children. The Titanomachy ensued: a
There was one Titan battling on Zeus’s side: Prometheus. His name means “he who thinks ahead.” His insistence on using guile rather than brute force was laughed off by his fellow Titans, and so Prometheus abandoned them to their fate and made his ingenuity available to Zeus’s faction. Thanks to Prometheus’s strategic talent, Zeus won. He and his brothers and sisters took their thrones on Mount Olympus. The rest of the Titans, defeated, were consigned to the hell of Tartarus, while Prometheus’s
Prometheus, alone of his kind now free, created men out of clay. Zeus, ever ready to pull the ladder up after himself, was afraid that men in turn might seek to challenge his kingly position, and called for them to be utterly wiped out. The Titan, however, loved his creations so dearly that he stole a spark from the forge of Hephaestus and carried it down to men, hidden in a stalk of fennel. Pyrotechnia, the art of fire, the source of all knowledge, was now man’s. Prometheus
