What Do You Know About Zeus

Do you know that Prometheus tricked him into taking the lesser portion of the sacrifice and that Zeus deprived mankind of the use of fire as a result? Then when Prometheus brought fire to mankind as a gift, he really was doing more than helping us. He was actually going behind Zeus' back. Well... that's one version of the story:

Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2. 15:
"Jupiter [Zeus], when he realized what had been done [Prometheus tricked him out of the best part of the sacrifice], in anger took fire from mortals, lest the favour of Prometheus should seem to have more weight than the power of the gods, and that uncooked flesh should not be useful to men. Prometheus, however, who was accustomed to scheming, planned by his own efforts to bring back the fire that had been taken from men. So, when the others were away, he approached the fire of Jove, and with a small bit of this shut in a fennel-stalk he came joyfully, seeming to fly, not to run, tossing the stalk so that the air shut in with its vapours should not put out the flame in so narrow a space. Up to this time, then, men who bring good news usually come with speed. In the rivalry of the games they also make it a practice for the runners to run, shaking torches after the manner of Prometheus.In return for this deed, Jupiter, to confer a like favour on men, gave a woman to them, fashioned by Vulcanus [Hephaistos], and endowed with all kinds of gifts by the will of the gods. For this reason she was called Pandora. But Prometheus he bound with an iron chain to a mountain in Scythia named Caucasus for thirty thousand years."
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