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Mythology Summary

11th October Thursday

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Story of Prometheus
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Prometheus was the son of one of the Titans


He was sent to live on Earth
His younger brothers name was Epimetheus
Because life was so bad for the humans, Prometheus wanted to do something nice for them.
He went to Zeus and asked if the humans could have fire. Zeus said, NO!
Prometheus decided to steal the fire from the Gods and give it to the humans
Zeus was angry about this and decided to chain Prometheus to a rock for the rest of time

Story of Pandora
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Zeus was so angry at Prometheus that he ordered Hephaestus to build a beautiful woman
from clay.
He brought this woman to life and gave her to Epimetheus with a special box. She was told
never to open it
One night, she was very curious and decided to open the box.
Many terrible things came out of the box except for hope, which was all that remained.

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