Titan! to whose immortal eyes
The sufferings of mortality,
Seen in their sad reality,
Were not as things that gods despise;
What was thy pity's recompense?
A silent suffering, and intense;
The rock, the vulture, and the chain,
All that the proud can feel of pain,
The agony they do not show,
The suffocating sense of woe,
Which speaks but in its loneliness,
And then is jealous lest the sky
Should have a listener, nor will sigh
Until its voice is echoless.
Titan! to thee the strife was given
Between the suffering and the will,
Which torture where they cannot kill;
And the inexorable Heaven,
And the deaf tyranny of Fate,
The ruling principle of Hate,
Which for its pleasure doth create
The things it may annihilate,
Refus'd thee even the boon to die:
The wretched gift Eternity
Was thine--and thou hast borne it well.
All that the Thunderer wrung from thee
Was but the menace which flung back
On him the torments of thy rack;
The fate thou didst so well foresee,
But would not to appease him tell;
And in thy Silence was his Sentence,
And in his Soul a vain repentance,
And evil dread so ill dissembled,
That in his hand the lightnings trembled.
Thy Godlike crime was to be kind,
To render with thy precepts less
The sum of human wretchedness,
And strengthen Man with his own mind;
But baffled as thou wert from high,
Still in thy patient energy,
In the endurance, and repulse
Of thine impenetrable Spirit,
Which Earth and Heaven could not convulse,
A mighty lesson we inherit:
Thou art a symbol and a sign
To Mortals of their fate and force;
Like thee, Man is in part divine,
A troubled stream from a pure source;
And Man in portions can foresee
His own funereal destiny;
His wretchedness, and his resistance,
And his sad unallied existence:
To which his Spirit may oppose
Itself--and equal to all woes,
And a firm will, and a deep sense,
Which even in torture can descry
Its own concenter'd recompense,
Triumphant where it dares defy,
And making Death a Victory.
Some say it was an eagle, and some say it was a vulture.
Q:Why did zeus punish Prometheus A:because he gave humans fire Q:what was Prometheus punishment A:he was chained to a rock where a vulture would tear at his insides every day and then at night he would heal and in the morning more pain came
Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to mankind, but he was punished for this by Zeus. He was chained to a rock where, by day, a vulture would eat his liver. However, as Prometheus was immortal, his liver would grow back overnight. This was to be his punishment for all eternity.
He was chained to a rock and an Eagle eats his liver (APEX)
He was chained on the Caucasus mountains. There, a vulture ate his liver.
Prometheus stole it and was punished by being chained to a rock forever where his regenerating liver is eaten daily by a vulture. Later Heracles kills the vulture and frees Prometheus
Some say it was an eagle, and some say it was a vulture.
He was chained to have his liver eaten out by a vulture every day by Zeus as punishment for his theft of Fire from the Gods.
Fire. For his trouble Prometheus was chained to a rock and had his liver eaten daily by a vulture, until it was killed by Hercules.
Chained to a rock in the mountains, where an eagle (some say a vulture) came every day and gnawed his liver. This went on for 30 years until the hero Hercules slew the bird, ending Prometheus's torment.
Q:Why did zeus punish Prometheus A:because he gave humans fire Q:what was Prometheus punishment A:he was chained to a rock where a vulture would tear at his insides every day and then at night he would heal and in the morning more pain came
Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to mankind, but he was punished for this by Zeus. He was chained to a rock where, by day, a vulture would eat his liver. However, as Prometheus was immortal, his liver would grow back overnight. This was to be his punishment for all eternity.
He was chained to a rock and an Eagle eats his liver (APEX)
He was chained on the Caucasus mountains. There, a vulture ate his liver.
The cast of Proximus - 2000 includes: Mariette Van Arkkels as Gaste op het huwelijk
He in Greek Mythology gave the people fire and the Gods punished him by strapping him to a rock and a vulture tore out his liver every single day and it healed every night for Eternity.
Prometheus. He unchained Prometheus from the rock he was tied to.