LaurieAnnie's photos with the keyword: Prometheus

Mixing Vessel with a Comic Figure of Prometheus Greek, made in Apulia, South Italy, 330-320 BC Terracotta Gnathian bell krater attributed to the Konnakis Painter Inventory # 82.AE.15 The old man with a swollen belly and an oversize phallus parodies the tragic figure of Prometheus. Punished by the gods for revealing the secret of fire to mankind, Prometheus was condemned to have an eagle peck continuously at his liver. Here the eagle is farcically replaced by a curious crow. Text from the Getty Villa museum label.