
Prometheus
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- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Introduction
- I. Who is Goethe's Prometheus?
- Prometheus and Christ
- The 'Prometheus' of Goethe
- The Dramatic Fragment
- Goethe Interprets His Mythologem
- The Modern Element in Goethe's Mythologem
- II. The Titanic, and the Eternity of the Human Race
- The Human Race and the Races of Men
- A Pythagorean Doctrine
- The World View of Greek Mythology
- Who Were the Titans?
- What Did 'Titanic' Mean to the Greeks?
- The Sufferings of Hera
- III. The Prometheus Mythologem in the Theogony'
- What Are Theogonies?
- The Marriage of Iapetos
- The Brothers of Prometheus
- Prometheus' Wound
- The Deeds of Prometheus
- The Original Sacrifice
- Pre-Hesiodic Elements in Hesiod
- The Mind of Zeus
- Parallel in Works and Days'
- IV. Archaic Prometheus Mythology
- The Herald of the Titans'
- Prometheus and Hermes
- Women of Prometheus
- Prometheus among the Kabeiroi
- Titans and Kabeiroi
- V. Methodological Intermezzo
- The Limits of Reconstruction
- How Much Can Be Known
- What Is Communicable
- VI. The World in Possession of Fire
- From 'The Fire Kindler'
- The Oxyrhynchus Fragment
- The Heidelberg Fragment
- The Position of the 'Pyrphoros'
- VII. The Fire Stealer
- The Deficient Nature of the Thief
- The Inevitable Theft
- VIII. The 'Prometheus Bound'
- Cosmogonic Tragedy
- The Rule of Zeus
- Prometheus and the Elements
- 'In Excess of Justice'
- The Zeus World and Human Existence
- The Suffering of Prometheus
- IX. Prometheus the Knowing One
- The Two Threads of the Tragedy
- Zeus, the Father
- Okeanos and His Daughters
- The Knowledge of Prometheus
- Mother Themis
- Prometheus and Io
- The Oracular Words of Prometheus
- X. The Promethean Prophecy
- The Foundation of the Prophecy
- The Son of Thetis
- XI. 'Prometheus Delivered'
- The Last Prophecy in the 'Prometheus Bound'
- Bodily Pain
- Immortals Who Long to Die
- The Redemption
- XII. Conclusion after Goethe
- Abbreviations
- List of Works Cited
- Index
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