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Prometheus
Prometheus
In Greek mythology, Prometheus is a Titan, the son of Iapetus and Themis, and brother to Atlas, Epimetheus and Menoetius. He was a champion of mankind, known for his wily intelligence, who stole fire from Zeus and gave it to mortals...

is a figure in Greek mythology.

Prometheus may also refer to:

Astronomy and space exploration

  • Prometheus (moon)
    Prometheus (moon)
    -Animations:-External links:* at ** anaglyph view of Prometheus...

    , of Saturn
  • Prometheus (volcano)
    Prometheus (volcano)
    Prometheus is an active volcano on Jupiter's moon Io. It is located on Io's hemisphere facing away from Jupiter at . Prometheus consists of a -wide volcanic pit named Prometheus Patera and a -long compound lava flow, all surrounded by reddish sulfur and circular, bright sulfur dioxide volcanic...

    , on Jupiter's moon Io
  • Project Prometheus
    Project Prometheus
    Project Prometheus was established in 2003 by NASA to develop nuclear-powered systems for long-duration space missions. This was NASA's first serious foray into nuclear spacecraft propulsion since the cancellation of the NERVA project in 1972...

    , NASA's nuclear propulsion program
  • 1809 Prometheus
    1809 Prometheus
    1809 Prometheus is an asteroid that shares the name of one of the lesser-known Saturnian moons, Prometheus....

    , an asteroid
  • Prometheus (spacecraft)
    Prometheus (spacecraft)
    Prometheus was a proposed manned vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing spaceplane concept put forward by Orbital Sciences Corporation in late 2010 as part of the second phase of NASA's Commercial Crew Development program.-Design:...

    , a proposed spacecraft by Orbital Sciences Corporation

Companies and organizations

  • Prometheus Books
    Prometheus Books
    Prometheus Books is a publishing company founded in August 1969 by Paul Kurtz, who also founded the Council for Secular Humanism and co-founded the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is currently the chairman of all three organizations. Prometheus Books publishes a range of books, including many...

    , a publishing company
  • Prometheus Entertainment
    Prometheus Entertainment
    Prometheus Entertainment is an American production company, created by Kevin Burns in 1999, specializing in documentary, reality, and non-fiction television programming and specials.-Series:* Ancient Aliens, 2010* Bridget's Sexiest Beaches...

    , film producer
  • Prometheus Global Media, entertainment publisher
  • Prometheus Institute, a non-profit advocating independent policy solutions
  • Prometheus Society
    Prometheus Society
    The Prometheus Society is a high IQ society, similar to Mensa International, but much more restrictive. The entry test is designed to be passable by 1 in 30,000 of the population; Mensa entry is achievable by 1 in 50...

    , a high IQ society

Literature

  • "Prometheus" (Goethe)
    Prometheus (Goethe)
    Prometheus is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in which the character of the mythic Prometheus addresses God in misotheist accusation and defiance. The poem was written between 1772 and 1774 and first published in 1789 after an anonymous and unauthorised publication in 1785 by Friedrich...

    , a poem
  • "Prometheus" (short story), a short story by Franz Kafka
  • Prometheus (comics)
    Prometheus (comics)
    Prometheus is the name of three fictional characters appearing in comic books published by DC Comics.The first Prometheus debuted in New Teen Titans vol. 2, #24 and was created by Marv Wolfman and Eduardo Barreto . The second version debuted in New Year's Evil: Prometheus Prometheus is the name...

    , the name of several DC Comics supervillains
  • Prometheus (Marvel Comics), a superhero
  • Prometheus Award
    Prometheus Award
    The Prometheus Award is an award for libertarian science fiction novels given annually by the Libertarian Futurist Society, which also publishes a quarterly journal Prometheus. L. Neil Smith established the award in 1979, but it was not awarded regularly until the newly founded Libertarian Futurist...

    , for libertarian science fiction
  • "Prometheus", an 1816 poem by George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
    George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
    George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, FRS , commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was a British poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement...

  • "Prometheus", an 1832 poem by Thomas Kibble Hervey
    Thomas Kibble Hervey
    Thomas Kibble Hervey was a British poet and critic.Thomas Kibble Hervey was born in Paisley, Scotland, and raised in Manchester, England where he was educated at Manchester Grammar School. He entered Caius College, Cambridge in 1822, but migrated to Trinity College the following year...

  • Prometheia
    Prometheia
    The Prometheia is a trilogy of plays about the titan Prometheus. It was attributed in Antiquity to the 5th-century BC Greek tragedian Aeschylus...

     a 5th century B.C. trilogy of plays by Aeschylus
    Aeschylus
    Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived, the others being Sophocles and Euripides, and is often described as the father of tragedy. His name derives from the Greek word aiskhos , meaning "shame"...

  • Prometheus Unbound
    Prometheus Unbound
    Prometheus Unbound is a four-act play by Percy Bysshe Shelley first published in 1820, concerned with the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus and his suffering at the hands of Zeus. It is inspired by Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and concerns Prometheus' release from captivity...

    , an 1820 play by poet Percy Bysshe Shelley
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron...

  • Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
    Frankenstein
    Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel about a failed experiment that produced a monster, written by Mary Shelley, with inserts of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first...

    , a novel by Mary Shelley

Film and television

  • Prometheus (Stargate), a fictional spacecraft
  • USS Prometheus, a fictional spacecraft in the "Message in a Bottle (Star Trek: Voyager)
    Message in a Bottle (Star Trek: Voyager)
    "Message in a Bottle" is a popular episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the fourteenth episode of the fourth season, which premiered January 21, 1998...

    " episode of Star Trek: Voyager
  • Project Prometheus (Smallville), a fictional bioenhancement suit
  • Prometheus and Bob, a TV series
  • Prometheus (film)
    Prometheus (film)
    Prometheus is an upcoming science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba and Logan Marshall-Green. The film was originally intended as a direct prequel to the 1979 science fiction horror film Alien...

    , an upcoming science fiction film by Ridley Scott.
  • The modern prometheus (Highlander The Series) a TV series.

Music

  • Prometheus (musician)
  • Creatures of Prometheus, an 1801 ballet by Ludwig van Beethoven
  • "Prometheus" (art song)
    Prometheus (art song)
    "Prometheus" is an intensely dramatic art song composed by Franz Schubert in October 1819 to a poem of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It was written for bass voice in the key of B major, but the key moves repeatedly through various major to minor tonalities, ending in C major...

    , an 1819 song by Franz Schubert
  • Prometheus (Liszt)
    Prometheus (Liszt)
    Franz Liszt composed his Prometheus in 1850, numbering it No. 5 in his cycle of symphonic poems when he revised it in 1855. The work is based on the Greek myth, Prometheus and is numbered S.99 in the Searle catalogue.-Composition:...

    , an 1850 symphonic poem
  • Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, a 1910 orchestral poem by Alexander Scriabin
  • Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise
    Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise
    Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise is the fourth and final studio album by Emperor. Produced by band member Ihsahn, it was released by Candlelight and was the band's final album. Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise differs from Emperor's previous recordings with a focus on a more...

    , an album by Emperor
  • Prometheus chord
  • Prometheus, a 1968 opera by Carl Orff
    Carl Orff
    Carl Orff was a 20th-century German composer, best known for his cantata Carmina Burana . In addition to his career as a composer, Orff developed an influential method of music education for children.-Early life:...


Gaming

  • Promethean: The Created
    Promethean: The Created
    Promethean: The Created is a role-playing game published by White Wolf, set in the new World of Darkness.The game is inspired by the classic tales of Frankenstein's monster, the Golem and other such simulacra. The characters are individuals created by first dismembering and reassembling human...

    , a role-playing game
  • Prometheus, a The Conduit
    The Conduit
    The Conduit is a first-person shooter video game developed by High Voltage Software for the Wii console. The Conduit was first revealed by the developer on the video game website IGN on April 17, 2008, and on October 29, 2008, the developer announced that Sega had signed on to be the game's...

    character
  • Prometheus, an Earthsiege
    Earthsiege
    Metaltech: Earthsiege is a mecha-style simulation game developed by Dynamix and released in 1994. Earthsiege is the first in a long line of games in the Earthsiege universe, which contains Earthsiege 2 and Battledrome , as well as action game Hunter Hunted , strategy games MissionForce: CyberStorm...

    character
  • Prometheus, a Mega Man ZX
    Mega Man ZX
    Mega Man ZX, known in Japan as , is a video game developed by Inti Creates and published by Capcom for the Nintendo DS handheld game console. It is the first game in the sixth series of the Mega Man video game franchise. For the first time in the Mega Man series, the game features both a male and a...

    character
  • Robo, a Chrono Trigger character, originally known as Prometheus
  • Prometheus
    Prometheus (video game)
    Prometheus is an upcoming shoot 'em up video game being developed by Parallel Planets due for release on Microsoft Windows. It will be published via digital distribution.- Gameplay :...

    , an upcoming PC video game
  • PROMETHEUS, a series of battle droids in TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
  • Prometheus, the planet Eridian artifacts were first discovered on in Borderlands (video game)
    Borderlands (video game)
    Borderlands is a science fiction based first-person shooter with RPG elements that was developed by Gearbox Software for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It was first revealed in the September 2007 issue of Game Informer magazine...


Transportation

  • HMS Prometheus
    HMS Prometheus
    Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Prometheus.*HMS Prometheus was a Pelorus-class protected cruiser launched in 1898, and sold in 1914....

    , several ships
  • USS Prometheus
    USS Prometheus
    USS Prometheus may refer to:, a United States Navy brig, a repair ship which served in both World War I and II* USS Prometheus , a fictional Nebula-class starship in the Star Trek universe; appeared in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine...

    , several ships
  • Prometheus, GWR Iron Duke Class
    GWR Iron Duke Class
    The Great Western Railway Iron Duke Class 4-2-2 was a class of broad gauge steam locomotives for express passenger train work.-History:The prototype locomotive, Great Western, was built as a 2-2-2 locomotive in April 1846, but was soon converted to a 4-2-2 arrangement...

     locomotive (1850-1887)
  • Prometheus, one of the GWR 3031 Class
    GWR 3031 Class
    The Dean Single, 3031 Class, or Achilles Class was a type of steam locomotive built by the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1899. They were designed by William Dean for passenger work...

     locomotives built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915, formerly named Nelson before 1895

Other uses

  • Prometheus (tree)
    Prometheus (tree)
    Prometheus was the oldest known non-clonal organism, a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine tree growing near the tree line on Wheeler Peak in eastern Nevada, United States...

  • Prometheus Camp, Finnish summer camp
  • Prometheus Radio Project
    Prometheus Radio Project
    The Prometheus Radio Project is a non-profit advocacy and community organizing group committed to building an inclusive and representative media landscape in the United States and around the world. They are working to create a network of low power community radio stations...

  • EUREKA Prometheus Project
    EUREKA Prometheus Project
    The EUREKA Prometheus Project was the largest R&D project ever in the field of driverless cars. In today's money it received more than 1 billion dollars of funding from the European Commission, and defined the state of the art of autonomous vehicles...

    , research project on driverless cars
  • Prometheism
    Prometheism
    Prometheism or Prometheanism was a political project initiated by Poland's Józef Piłsudski. Its aim was to weaken the Russian Empire and its successor states, including the Soviet Union, by supporting nationalist independence movements among the major non-Russian peoples that lived within the...

    , Polish political project
  • Prometheus, a liver dialysis system

See also

  • Prom (disambiguation)
    Prom (disambiguation)
    Prom or The Prom may refer to:* A prom in the US is a formal social event - usually a dance - generally held near the end of the last two years of high school.* The Prom, an American indie-rock band...

  • Prome, town in Burma
  • Prometh, chemical
  • Promethea
    Promethea
    Promethea is a comic book series created by Alan Moore, J. H. Williams III and Mick Gray, published by America's Best Comics/WildStorm....

    , comic book series
  • Promethium (disambiguation)
    Promethium (disambiguation)
    Promethium may refer to:*Promethium, the chemical element*Promethium , the fictional metal*A napalm-like fictional substance in Warhammer 40,000*Promethium, the name of the Mechanic Empire's queen in the fictional universe of Leiji Matsumoto...

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