From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 16962
Date: 2002-12-01
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From: Jean Kelly
To: Cybalist
Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Pramantha/Prometheus: a false etymology?
> AFAIK, the earliest account of Prometheus and Epithemeus appears in Hesiod's "Works and Days"; Hesiod's dates are believed to be 8th cent. BC.
... and in Hesiod's _Theogony_, of course. Prometheus was also known to Aesop in the 6th c. BC. Aeschylus' Promethean trilogy, where the myth was further elaborated, was written in the early 5th c. BC.
Piotr