Editing Theogony (section)

==Prometheus==
[[File:Atlas Typhoeus Prometheus.png|thumb|Laconic bowl depicting [[Prometheus]] and [[Atlas (mythology)|Atlas]] enduring their respective punishments, circa 550 BC]]

The ''Theogony'', after listing the offspring of the Titan [[Iapetus (mythology)|Iapetus]] and the Oceanid [[Clymene (wife of Iapetus)|Clymene]], as [[Atlas (mythology)|Atlas]], [[Menoitios]], [[Prometheus]], and [[Epimetheus (mythology)|Epimetheus]], and telling briefly what happened to each, tells the story of Prometheus.<ref>''Theogony'' 507&ndash;616 (Most, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-theogony/2018/pb_LCL057.43.xml pp. 42, 43]).</ref> When the gods and men met at [[Mekone]] to decide how sacrifices should be distributed, Prometheus sought to trick Zeus. Slaughtering an ox, he took the valuable fat and meat, and covered it with the ox's stomach. Prometheus then took the bones and hid them with a thin glistening layer of fat. Prometheus asked Zeus' opinion on which offering pile he found more desirable, hoping to trick the god into selecting the less desirable portion. Though Zeus saw through the trick, he chose the fat covered bones, and so it was established that ever after men would burn the bones as sacrifice to the gods, keeping the choice meat and fat for themselves. But in punishment for this trick, an angry Zeus decided to deny mankind the use of fire. But Prometheus stole fire inside a fennel stalk, and gave it to humanity. Zeus then ordered the creation of the first woman [[Pandora]] as a new punishment for mankind. And Prometheus was chained to a cliff, where an eagle fed on his ever-regenerating liver every day, until eventually Zeus' son [[Heracles]] came to free him.