Prometheus

Titan son of Iapetus, fire-bringer and champion of mortals, punished by Zeus.

Parentage

• parent: Iapetus

Children

• Deucalion, son of Prometheus

Children in alternative accounts

• Deucalion, son of Prometheus: Apollodorus: Aetolian ancestryApollodorus, Library 1.7.2 (primary)

Domains

• forethought and craft

Powers

• Steals fire in a fennel-stalk and gives it to men
• Tricks Zeus over the division of sacrificial portions

Epithets

• πυρφόρος greek · pyrphoros · literaryFire-bringer; the bearer of stolen fire to mankindSoph. OC 55; cf. Aesch. PV (the Prometheus Pyrphoros title) (primary)
• ποικιλόβουλος greek · poikiloboulos · literaryOf intricate/cunning counsel; the subtle-minded TitanHes. Theog. 521 (Προμηθέα ποικιλόβουλον) (primary)

Relations

• sibling: AtlasFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Iapetus) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: Epimetheus
• sibling: Menoetius
• child (Apollodoran account): Deucalion, son of PrometheusApollodorus, Library 1.7.2 (primary)

Sources

• existence: Hesiod, Theogony 510, 521 (primary)