Editing Prometheus (section)

=====Interpretation=====
Casanova (1979),<ref name=Casanova-1979>Casanova, Angelo (1979). ''La famiglia di Pandora: analisi filologica dei miti di Pandora e Prometeo nella tradizione esiodea''. Florence.</ref><ref>Angelo Casanova is a professor of Greek literature at the University of Florence.</ref> finds in Prometheus a reflection of an ancient, pre-Hesiodic [[trickster]]-figure, who served to account for the mixture of good and bad in human life, and whose fashioning of humanity from clay was an Eastern motif familiar in ''[[Enuma Elish]]''. As an opponent of Zeus, the titan Prometheus can be seen as characteristic of the [[Titan (mythology)|titans]] in general, and like other titans, was punished for his opposition. As an advocate for humanity he gains semi-divine status at Athens, where the episode in ''[[Theogony]]'' in which he is liberated<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'', 526–533.</ref> is interpreted by Casanova as a post-Hesiodic interpolation.{{efn|In this interpretation, Angelo Casanova is joined by some editors of ''[[Theogony]]''.}}<ref name=Casanova-1979/>

According to the classicist [[:de:Karl-Martin Dietz|Karl-Martin Dietz]], in Hesiod's scriptures, Prometheus represents the "descent of mankind from the communion with the gods into the present troublesome life".<ref name="Karl-Martin Dietz 1989, p. 66">{{cite book |last=Dietz |first=Karl-Martin |year=1989 |title=Metamorphosen des Geistes |volume=1 |page=66 |chapter=Prometheus – vom Göttlichen zum menschlichen Wissen |place=Stuttgart}}</ref>