| Prometheus: Archetypal Image of Human Existence Revised Edition Contributor(s): Kerényi, Carl (Author), Manheim, Ralph (Translator) |
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ISBN: 069101907X ISBN-13: 9780691019079 Publisher: Princeton University Press OUR PRICE: $39.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1997 Annotation: Prometheus the god stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at his liver, until Herakles freed him. For the Greeks, the myth of Prometheus's release reflected a primordial law of existence and the fate of humankind. Carl Ker?nyi examines the story of Prometheus and the very process of mythmaking as a reflection of the archetypal function and seeks to discover how this primitive tale was invested with a universal fatality, first in the Greek imagination, and then in the Western tradition of Romantic poetry. Ker?nyi traces the evolving myth from Hesiod and Aeschylus, and in its epic treatment by Goethe and Shelley; he moves on to consider the myth from the perspective of Jungian psychology, as the archetype of human daring signifying the transformation of suffering into the mystery of the sacrifice. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology - Religion | Antiquities & Archaeology |
| Dewey: 292.211 |
| LCCN: 99218299 |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 6.01" W x 7.9" (0.52 lbs) 184 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Prometheus the god stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at his liver, until Herakles freed him. For the Greeks, the myth of Prometheus's release reflected a primordial law of existence and the fate of humankind. Carl Ker nyi examines the story of Prometheus and the very process of mythmaking as a reflection of the archetypal function and seeks to discover how this primitive tale was invested with a universal fatality, first in the Greek imagination, and then in the Western tradition of Romantic poetry. Ker nyi traces the evolving myth from Hesiod and Aeschylus, and in its epic treatment by Goethe and Shelley; he moves on to consider the myth from the perspective of Jungian psychology, as the archetype of human daring signifying the transformation of suffering into the mystery of the sacrifice. |