Tuesday, 24 September 2013

Ideas for blog topics

As you can see, my chosen deity to discuss in this blog for the Ancient Greek Religion module is Prometheus.
After some brief research I have chosen a few topics which I would be interested in discussing.

They are:

  • How Prometheus is represented in various works such as Hesiod's Theogony and Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound.
    • What did the Greeks think of him?
    • Did he deserve his punishment?
  • Prometheus' gift to mortals
    • Gift of fire and the Olympic torch
    • Prometheus' influence of humanity
  • Prometheus the Trickster
    • Claim to be the greatest god
    • Ironic? Is he not a 'champion for man'?
  • Titans compared to the Olympian gods
    • What it meant to the Greeks
    • Why are Titans not worshipped like the Olympian gods?
    • Olympian or Chthonian?
    • Religion or myth?
  • Prometheus' family
    • Parents
    • Brothers (Atlas)
    • Son(s)
    • Prometheus, Epimetheus and Pandora
    • Punishment of the Titans
  • Comparison with the Christian religion
    • Fire compared with the Tree of Life and Death in the Garden of Eden
  • Depiction in art/literature/movies
    • Doesn't appear in physical evidence often
    • Why didn't the Greeks worship him over the Olympians? Was it out of fear?

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