In classic Greek mythology, Prometheus, son of the Titan Iapetus and god of forethought and crafty counsel, was entrusted (alongside Athena) with the moulding of mankind out of mud and wind. He is ...

Alien director Ridley Scott talks to Des Sampson about going back to the future in Prometheus, a movie which both predates and updates his sci-fi classic. When Ridley Scott unleashed Alien, in 1979, ...

Greek mythology says that Zeus or Jupiter defeated the old gods—the Titans—and became the master of the worlds. One of the ...

Once upon a time, long ago, the great god Zeus overcame the gigantic race, the Titans, to become the most powerful god. He ruled over Olympus and banished the Titans to Tartarus, but he spared two of ...

THE MYTH OF THE DRAMA. IN many a detail the meaning of the Prometheus Unbound eludes us; yet in great outlines it may be traced. Shelley takes as his starting-point the old story of Prometheus as ...