Secret Son of a Legend: Autobiography

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According to the German classicist Karl-Martin Dietz, in Hesiod's scriptures, Prometheus represents the "descent of mankind from the communion with the gods into the present troublesome life". [25] The Lost Titanomachy [ edit ] While doing quests in the dwarven realm of Orzammar, the Warden can meet Zerlinda, a young mother from a good family who is reduced to begging to support her infant - the product of her forbidden romance with a casteless dwarf. Because of the way dwarven society is structured, things would have been all right if she'd had a daughter because the baby would have inherited her position in society; but since the child is a boy, her lover abandoned them and, when she wouldn't give up the child, her parents threw them out. The Warden can improve her situation either by arranging for her to receive charity from the local church, convincing her to take the child and move above ground, or persuading her father to let her bring the baby home. There are many, and often contradictory, legends about the most ancient King Midas. In one, Midas was king of Pessinus, a city of Phrygia, who as a child was adopted by King Gordias and Cybele, the goddess whose consort he was, and who (by some accounts) was the goddess-mother of Midas himself. [4] Some accounts place the youth of Midas in Macedonian Bermion (see Bryges). [5] In Thracian Mygdonia, [6] Herodotus referred to a wild rose garden at the foot of Mount Bermion as "the garden of Midas son of Gordias, where roses grow of themselves, each bearing sixty blossoms and of surpassing fragrance". [7] Herodotus says elsewhere that Phrygians lived in ancient Europe, where they were known as Bryges, [8] and the existence of the garden implies that Herodotus believed that Midas lived prior to a Phrygian migration to Anatolia.

Sarah Morris demonstrated (Morris, 2004) that donkeys' ears were a Bronze Age royal attribute, borne by King Tarkasnawa (Greek Tarkondemos) of Mira, on a seal inscribed in both Hittite cuneiform and Luwian hieroglyphs. In this connection, the myth would appear for Greeks to justify the exotic attribute. In his dialogue titled Protagoras, Plato contrasts Prometheus with his dull-witted brother Epimetheus, "Afterthinker". [41] [42] In Plato's dialogue Protagoras, Protagoras asserts that the gods created humans and all the other animals, but it was left to Prometheus and his brother Epimetheus to give defining attributes to each. As no physical traits were left when the pair came to humans, Prometheus decided to give them fire and other civilising arts. [43] Athenian religious dedication and observance [ edit ] DeVries, Keith (2005). "Greek Pottery and Gordion Chronology". In Kealhofer, Lisa (ed.). The Archaeology of Midas and the Phrygians: Recent Work at Gordion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. pp.42ff. ISBN 1-931707-76-6. Manning, Sturt; etal. (2001). "Anatolian Tree Rings and a New Chronology for the East Mediterranean Bronze-Iron Ages". Science. 294 (5551): 2532–2535 [p. 2534]. Bibcode: 2001Sci...294.2532M. doi: 10.1126/science.1066112. PMID 11743159. S2CID 33497945.One Piece: In the past, Princess Scarlet faked her death so that she could be with her lover, Kyros, who's a former criminal and thus won't have the public hounding them; together, they conceived a child, Rebecca, whom the two (especially Kyros) really dote on. Played with in that, in the end, it's revealed that people in her kingdom knew all along that the two are together and they're mostly okay with them (and Rebecca). A Season 8 episode featured another Witch-Whitelighter hybrid named Simon Marks, who is notably a year older than Paige. It is implied that Whitelighter-Witches were more common than anyone thought, but they were forced to keep their existence hidden until Paige was needed to recreate the Power of Three. Although perhaps made explicit in the Prometheia, later authors such as Hyginus, the Bibliotheca, and Quintus of Smyrna would confirm that Prometheus warned Zeus not to marry the sea nymph Thetis. She is consequently married off to the mortal Peleus, and bears him a son greater than the father – Achilles, Greek hero of the Trojan War. Pseudo-Apollodorus moreover clarifies a cryptic statement (1026–29) made by Hermes in Prometheus Bound, identifying the centaur Chiron as the one who would take on Prometheus' suffering and die in his place. [43] Reflecting a myth attested in Greek vase paintings from the Classical period, Pseudo-Apollodorus places the Titan (armed with an axe) at the birth of Athena, thus explaining how the goddess sprang forth from the forehead of Zeus. [43]

Lewis Richard Farnell, The Cults of the Greek States (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896), vol.Olga Raggio, in her study "The Myth of Prometheus", attributes Plato in the Protagoras as an important contributor to the early development of the Prometheus myth. [38] Raggio indicates that many of the more challenging and dramatic assertions which Aeschylean tragedy explores are absent from Plato's writings about Prometheus. [39]

Lupe's parents were a werewolf and a human, who like Jez's parents broke one of the Night World's most serious laws by being together. Lupe's human father was killed, while she and her mother were rescued and sheltered by Thierry, which is partly why she has Undying Loyalty to him. Lupe appears pretty comfortable about her 'half-breed' status, openly telling Hannah Snow about it, though she is still grieved by what happened to her father.Cursed (2020): Nimue was born due to her parents' affair. Her father was despised for supposedly betraying his people (so associating with him was tabooed); her mother was engaged to someone else. He said seeing our photos in the paper had been a surreal experience. He said his mind was all over the place.

In The Merlin Trilogy, Merlin is this, as he was born from the love story between Niniane and Ambrosius. Arthur himself is one due to Adaptational Consent turning his parents' relationship into a consensual affair. According to the fourth, everyone grew weary of the meaningless affair. The gods grew weary, the eagles grew weary, the wound closed wearily. Midas, now hating wealth and splendor, moved to the country and became a worshipper of Pan, the god of the fields and satyrs. [21] Roman mythographers [22] asserted that his tutor in music was Orpheus. Jez Redfern was the result of a union between a human woman and a lamia man, which is forbidden by Night World law. Her parents were actually murdered because of this and they nearly killed Jez too. Her parents didn't intend to have children and didn't even realize it was possible for a human and lamia to conceive a child together. The Eulenspiegel Society began the magazine Prometheus in the early 1970s; [95] it is a decades-long-running magazine exploring issues important to kinksters, ranging from art and erotica, to advice columns and personal ads, to conversation about the philosophy of consensual kink. The magazine now exists online. [95]

Using a similar interpretation to that of Boccaccio, Marsilio Ficino in the fifteenth century updated the philosophical and more sombre reception of the Prometheus myth not seen since the time of Plotinus. In his book written in 1476–77 titled Quaestiones Quinque de Mente, Ficino indicates his preference for reading the Prometheus myth as an image of the human soul seeking to obtain supreme truth. As Raggio summarises Ficino's text, "The torture of Prometheus is the torment brought by reason itself to man, who is made by it many times more unhappy than the brutes. It is after having stolen one beam of the celestial light [...] that the soul feels as if fastened by chains and [...] only death can release her bonds and carry her to the source of all knowledge." [80] This sombreness of attitude in Ficino's text would be further developed later by Charles de Bouelles' Liber de Sapiente of 1509 which presented a mix of both scholastic and Neoplatonic ideas. The poem offers direct biblical connotations for the Prometheus myth which was unseen in any of the ancient Greek poets dealing with the Prometheus myth in either drama, tragedy, or philosophy. The intentional use of the German phrase " Da ich ein Kind war..." ("When I was a child"): the use of Da is distinctive, and with it Goethe directly applies the Lutheran translation of Saint Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians, 13:11: " Da ich ein Kind war, da redete ich wie ein Kind..." ("When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things"). Goethe's Prometheus is significant for the contrast it evokes with the biblical text of Corinthians rather than for its similarities.