Prometheus

=Characteristics of Astronomic Body= Prometheus is one of the planet Saturn's 62 moons. It is located 139,353 kilometers from Saturn right next to Saturn's F-ring. It is around 100 kilometers long and has a mass of eight hundred quadrillion kilograms. It's so close to the F-ring that it pulls some of the rings ice particles to them.

Symbols and Duties of Mythological Figure
Prometheus, as the creator of mankind, one of his main duties was to take care of the human race. He had to give them most of their knowledge and wisdom. One of the most important of the things he gave to man was fire. Prometheus is referred to as both a god and a titan in the stories about him. During the war against the titans and the olympians Prometheus as a titan foresaw that the titans were going to lose the war, so he sided with Jupiter and convinced his brother Epimetheus to switch sides to.

Birth Story of Mythological Figure
Prometheus doesn't really have any special birth story. Some stories say that his parents were Iaputus and Clymene and others say his parents Eurymoden and Clymene. His brothers were Atlas, menoetius, and Epimetheus.

Popular Story of Mythological Figure
One of the most popular stories of Prometheus is his theft of fire from Jupiter and the other olympians. The humans sacrificed meat to the gods. The portion ofM meat that they sacrificed was the good portion. Prometheus felt that they should be eating the good portion, so he told Jupiter to pick which portion of meat that he wanted. Prometheus put the flesh in one bag and the bones in the other. (the flesh was the good portion) He hid the flesh under the stomach the last part Jupiter would pick. He hid the bones under the fat which Jupiter was more likely to pick. Jupiter picked the fat just as Prometheus thought and got mad at him. Instead of punishing Prometheus he said that the humans could eat their meat raw and took the fire from them. To get the fire back he asked Minerva to show him a back way into olympus. After she had shown him the back way he snuck up to olympus at night and stole the fire from the sacred hearth and hid it in a fennel stalk. He snuck back down down and gave the fire to the humans. The day after Jupiter had seen something shining on the Earth. He figured out it was fire and immediatly blamed Prometheus. He had Prometheus chained naked to a rock on top of the caucasus moutains and had an vulture rip out his liver everyday just for it to grow back overnight and get ripped out again the next day. Related Stories ** Another story that Prometheus is in is the story of Pandora's box.

Myth or Science Connection ** Prometheus was named after a moon that orbits Saturn because he is mostly referred to as a titan and Saturn is the big one out of the titans. Another reason is that just as he stole the fire, the moon is stealing ice particles.

=**Works Cited**= Gueber. Myths of Greece and Rome. American book company, 1893. Print

Daulaires. Greek Myths. Doubleday & Company Incorporated, 1962. Print

Leeming, David. The World of Myth. New York: Oxford Unicersity Press, inc, 1990. Print

"Science of Prometheus." nasa.gov. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, n.d. Web. 6 Dec. 2009