When the clay figures were done baking, they were no longer clay figures, but living animals and humans. He placed each animal and human on the earth, where they prospered. (World Book Encyclopedia 568) One of the more popular myths explains how Pandoras box was opened. Zeus was angry with Prometheus. He ordered the creation of a woman, her name was Pandora. She had this little evil box, in it, was all the evils that would come to plague mankind. She tried to seduce Prometheus, but he refused her. Pandora then went to Prometheus brother, Epimetheus. She seduced him, and persuaded him to open her box. When he did, a great chill came over him, he had released all of the evil things in Pandoras box, only one thing remained in the box, and that was hope. (Graves, 259) Prometheus isnt responsible for naming, or creating anything, it all depends on how you look at it. If you look at it one way, he is just some guy who stole fire from the gods; he didnt create it, or name it. If you look at it form the perspective of mankind, then he did create fire. Think about it, mankind had nothing back then. When Prometheus brought them fire from the gods down to earth, they must have believed that he did indeed create the fire. Prometheus was a great god, and he was one of the few gods that helped humanity. The Greeks were wonderful at creating these myths and gods, and Prometheus has to be one of the better ones....
