#2- OnlineGreatBooks.com talks Aeschylus' "Prometheus Bound"
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Is the Earth That God, or Is It That God Made the Earth Less Productive?
Zeus is angry at prometheus for giving man fire andand the tools with which to build civilization. And i think about, you knowt what power does a god have if he doesn't have mortals to reign over him? So maybe zeus is y at prom Prometheus for setting that in motion. Ye, interesting. Hadn't thought of it that way. The angle i had, i was that at that that technology becomes a false god then, and that the technology Competes with zeus for humans attentions. That puts man into the role of the creatoran. And usurps usurps the gods ultimately, right?
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