Prometheus: Archetypal Image of Human Existence / Carl Kerenyi ; transl. from the german by Ralph Manheim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kerenyi, Karl, (1897-1973), Auteur.

Contributor:

Manheim, Ralph, (1907-1992), Traduction.

Series:

Princeton paperbacks ; Mythos

Bollingen series ; 65, 1

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Literature.

Prometheus (Greek deity) in literature.

Prometheus (Greek deity).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 152 pages) : illustrations

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

Princeton (N.J.) : Princeton univ. Press, 1991.

Summary:

Prometheus the god stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at his liver, until Herakles freed him. For the Greeks, the myth of Prometheus's release reflected a primordial law of existence and the fate of humankind. Carl Kerényi examines the story of Prometheus and the very process of mythmaking as a reflection of the archetypal function and seeks to discover how this primitive tale was invested with a universal fatality, first in the Greek imagination, and then in the Western tradition of Romantic poetry. Kerényi traces the evolving myth from Hesiod and Aeschylus, and in its epic treatment by Goethe and Shelley; he moves on to consider the myth from the perspective of Jungian psychology, as the archetype of human daring signifying the transformation of suffering into the mystery of the sacrifice.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

LIST OF PLATES

INTRODUCTION

I Who Is Goethe's Prometheus?

II The Titanic, and the Eternity of the Human Race

III The Prometheus Mythologem in the Theogony'

IV Archaic Prometheus Mythology

V Methodological Intermezzo

VI The World in Possession of Fire

VII The Fire Stealer

VIII The 'Prometheus Bound'

IX Prometheus the Knowing One

X The Promethean Prophecy

XI 'Prometheus Delivered'

XII Conclusion after Goethe

ABBREVIATIONS

LIST OF WORKS CITED

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691214580

0691214581

OCLC:

1227052070