Prometheus' Martyrdom - Vasilis Bottas
The Torture of Prometheus - Jean-Louis-Cesar Lair
普罗米修斯(古希臘語:Προμηθεύς),在希腊神话中,是提坦神族的神明之一,名字的意思是“先見之明”(forethought)。他是地母盖亞与天父乌拉诺斯的女儿忒弥斯与伊阿佩托斯的儿子。
普罗米修斯与智慧女神雅典娜共同创造了人类,并教会了人类很多知识。當時宙斯禁止人類用火,他看到人类生活的困苦,帮人类从奥林匹斯偷取了火,因此触怒宙斯。宙斯將他锁在高加索山的悬崖上,每天派一只鹰去吃他的肝,又讓他的肝每天重新长上,使他日日承受被恶鹰啄食肝臟的痛苦。然而普罗米修斯始终坚毅不屈。几千年后,赫剌克勒斯为寻找金蘋果来到悬崖边,把恶鹰射死,并让半人半马的肯陶洛斯族的喀戎来代替,解救了普罗米修斯。但他必須永遠戴一只铁环,环上镶上一块高加索山上的石子,以便宙斯可以自豪地宣称他的仇敌仍然被锁在高加索山的悬崖上
The Creatures of Prometheus (German: Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus, Op. 43) is a ballet composed in 1801 by Ludwig van Beethoven following the libretto of Salvatore Viganò. The overture to the ballet is part of the concert repertoire. Beethoven based the fourth movement of his Eroica Symphony and his Eroica Variations (piano) on the main theme of the last movement of the ballet.
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