Listening to Marc Andreessen discuss his Techno-Optimist Manifesto on the Foundation for American Innovation’s Dynamist podcast, I was struck by his repetition of something that is in the manifesto ...

Before heroes like Heracles walked the earth, one Titan changed humanity forever. Prometheus defied Zeus, stole fire from Olympus, and gave mankind knowledge, survival, and power. But his rebellion ...

Writer-director Stephanie M. Acosta’s hour-long “re-imagining” of the tortured Titan’s story is a noble effort that doesn’t quite succeed. Though the Anatomy Collective’s puppetry adds to the drama, ...

In Parts 1 and 2 of this series, we looked at how Prometheus (meaning “forethought” in Greek), a Titan, created and loved mankind. He attempted to outwit the king of the gods, Zeus, through trickery ...

I've suggested that fire is our first technology. Its profound and transformative impact—to this very day—is so powerful that its mythical source is the divine. Let's start at that point where ...

WE know distressingly little, we are eager to learn more, of the childhood of the Hellenic race. The Homeric poems offer us, as it were, a glimpse of a landscape seen by a flash of lightning. What ...

THE third episode of the Prometheus begins with the sudden and unannounced entrance of Io. She is an innocent maiden, daughter of Inachos, an Argive river-god. Being wooed by Zeus, she excited the ...