Editing Prometheus (section)

====The Lost Titanomachy====
[[File:Carl Bloch, Prometheus' Befrielse, 1864, The Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports.jpg|upright=1.2|thumb|''The Release of Prometheus'', 1864 oil on canvas by [[Carl Bloch]], considered lost until 2012, [[Athens]].]]

The [[Titanomachy (epic poem)|Titanomachy]] is a lost epic of the cosmological struggle between the Greek gods and their parents, the Titans, and, in addition to the works of [[Hesiod]], is a probable source of the Prometheus myth.<ref>Reinhardt, Karl. ''Aischylos als Regisseur und Theologe'', p. 30.</ref> Its reputed author was supposed to have lived in the 8th century BC, but [[M.&nbsp;L. West]] has argued that it can't be earlier than the late 7th century BC.<ref>{{cite journal |first=M. L. |last=West |author-link=Martin Litchfield West |title='Eumelos': A Corinthian Epic Cycle? |journal=The Journal of Hellenic Studies |volume=122 |year=2002 |pages=109–133  |doi=10.2307/3246207 |jstor=3246207 |postscript=none }}, pp. 110–111.</ref> Presumably included in the Titanomachy is the story of Prometheus, himself a Titan, who managed to avoid being in the direct confrontational cosmic battle between Zeus and the other [[Twelve Olympians|Olympians]] against [[Cronus]] and the other Titans<ref name=Philippson>{{cite book|last=Philippson|first=Paula|date=1944|title=Untersuchungen uber griechischen Mythos: Genealogie als mythische Form|location=Zürich, Switzerland|publisher=Rhein-Verlag|url=https://archive.org/details/MN40011ucmf_4}}</ref> (although there is no direct evidence of Prometheus' inclusion in the epic).<ref name="auto2"/> M.&nbsp;L. West notes that surviving references suggest that there may have been significant differences between the Titanomachy epic and the account of events in Hesiod; and that the Titanomachy may be the source of later variants of the Prometheus myth not found in Hesiod, notably the non-Hesiodic material found in the ''[[Prometheus Bound]]'' of [[Aeschylus]].<ref name="auto3">{{harvp|West|2002|pp=114}}, and 110–118 for general discussion of Titanomachy.</ref>