Download or read book The Origin and Development of the Prometheus Myth written by John MacPherson and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the course of his discussion of Aeschylus' use of the Prometheus myth, George Thomson has observed that "this myth has a history of its own". It is the purpose of the present study to trace this history, as far as that may be ascertained from the materials at our disposal. In claiming this purpose, the author desires to differentiate his task from that of the many compilers of handbooks to whom he is indebted. It may Suffice for a compendium of Greek mythology to present all the variant forms of a myth, while making adequate reference to the literary sources of such variants; indeed, the limitations of space may well excuse any encyclopaedist from doing more than this within the compass of a single volume. A more ambitious work, extending into several bulky volumes, may even arrange the literary references to any one myth in chronological order; but that does not give us the history of the myth. The aim of this present treatment is not simply to chronicle the many literary allusions to Prometheus, but also to attempt some explanation of the more significant stages in the development of the myth.[...]" --