Prometheus' Martyrdom - Vasilis Bottas
The Torture of Prometheus - Jean-Louis-Cesar Lair
普羅米修斯(古希臘語:Προμηθεύς),在希臘神話中,是提坦神族的神明之一,名字的意思是“先見之明”(forethought)。他是地母蓋亞與天父烏拉諾斯的女兒忒彌斯與伊阿佩托斯的兒子。
普羅米修斯與智慧女神雅典娜共同創造了人類,並教會了人類很多知識。當時宙斯禁止人類用火,他看到人類生活的困苦,幫人類從奧林匹斯偷取了火,因此觸怒宙斯。宙斯將他鎖在高加索山的懸崖上,每天派一隻鷹去吃他的肝,又讓他的肝每天重新長上,使他日日承受被惡鷹啄食肝臟的痛苦。然而普羅米修斯始終堅毅不屈。幾千年後,赫剌克勒斯為尋找金蘋果來到懸崖邊,把惡鷹射死,並讓半人半馬的肯陶洛斯族的喀戎來代替,解救了普羅米修斯。但他必須永遠戴一隻鐵環,環上鑲上一塊高加索山上的石子,以便宙斯可以自豪地宣稱他的仇敵仍然被鎖在高加索山的懸崖上
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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