Deity Greek and Roman
Prometheus
Προμηθεύς grc
Titan, culture hero, and trickster figure in Greek mythology who defied the gods; son of Iapetus
A god is known
by the accounts
that name it.
Accounts kept apart
Family
The family of Prometheus
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 20
Kinship in an account 18
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing · shared parentage in every account · descent from the same generation in a single tree
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- child of (child) Asia Oceanid of Greek mythology
- child of (child) Iapetos Titan in Greek mythology
- child of (child) Klymene Oceanid in Greek mythology
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child of (child) Themis in ancient Greek mythology, a titaness, the personification of divine order, fairness, law, natural law, and custom, whose symbols are the scales of justice - parent of (child) Aetnaeus son of Prometheus one of the Cabiri in Greek mythology
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parent of (father) Aidos Greek goddess of shame - parent of (child) Chimaereus son of Prometheus and brother of Lycus in Greek mythology
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parent of (child) Deucalion son of Prometheus in Greek mythology - parent of (child) Hellen mythological progenitor of the Hellenes
- parent of (child) Lycus son of Prometheus and Celaeno in Greek mythology
- parent of (child) Thebe daughter of Prometheus
- partner of (spouse) Axiothea wife of Prometheus in Greek mythology
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partner of (spouse) Celaeno one of the Pleiades in Greek mythology - partner of (spouse) Klymene Oceanid in Greek mythology
- partner of (spouse) Pronoia Oceanid nymph
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sibling of Atlas deity in Greek mythology -
sibling of Epimetheus mythological figure - sibling of Menoetius Titan in Greek mythology
Family 2
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching
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Accounts
Where Prometheus appears
Each work is its own account. Where two disagree about a parent or a deed, both readings stand.
What this means
Works this figure is recorded as appearing in. Each is an account, not a chapter of one story: where two of them disagree about a parent or a deed, both readings stand and this site keeps the disagreement. The earliest account below is computed from these works, not stated by any source — a fact about which texts this collection holds and when they were written, not a date for the figure, who has none, and not a floor for the tradition, which is older than anything that survives of it.
Connections
How Prometheus connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Identification 1
What this means
One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.
Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification
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Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
20 statements on this record
- 8 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 12 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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