Isn’t the myth that Zeus finds out and chains him to a rock, cursing him to be visited by an eagle every morning to eat his liver which, being immortal, will regrow every night, thus subjecting him to eternal torment?
I don’t know the exact intent of the person to whom you were replying, but the liver is in the chest area and, presumably, having it eaten would cause significant pain.
I get that but what I don’t get is the accusations that “Prometheus became a hypochondriac”. Prometheus wasn’t real. He is a supernatural entity created to explain a historical event that they knew nothing about. He is a character in a story, a story that they mentioned nothing about except for “chest pain”.
It’s just a fictional story used as a placeholder in lieu of historical evidence of the actual event in question (discovery of fire). Same way that they explain the existence of horses as being “gifts from Poseidon made of sea foam”.
It’s just illogical nonsense, from a time period that did not understand the fallacy of their logic, attempting to explain things they did not fully understand from their limited knowledge available to them at the time.
that’s a very reductionist view of mythology though. surely people back then didn’t know the diameter of an atom, but they made observations and packed these observations into neat, memorizable stories. hypochondria is a real phenomenon, and what i’m guessing is that the greek mythologers connected “bringing knowledge to the people” to hypochondria.
i’m making that claim because i’ve observed various times in my life that hypochondria seems to affect a certain type of people, me included. and i kinda resonate with what prometheus was supposed to stand for. so that’s that.
Yes but fire is also a real phenomenon, which is what the myth is actually about: an explanation of how humanity discovered fire according to the cultural beliefs of the era.
Prometheus brought knowledge of fire to the people.
The rest of the tale is to make it fit into the establishmed mythos of what they believed the gods to be. Prometheus stole fire from Zeus, so Zeus retaliated against Prometheus with a cruel punishment, as he does in many other mythos when he has been crossed because that is how the mythos has characterized him.
You’re also forgetting to account that this was a time period where they thought these myths were explanations of reality, not fantasy. To them these weren’t just short stories but perceived as legitimate historical analysis.
Saying it is about hypochondria is reaching and, according to what you just said, projecting personal bias into the story.
Wat?
Isn’t the myth that Zeus finds out and chains him to a rock, cursing him to be visited by an eagle every morning to eat his liver which, being immortal, will regrow every night, thus subjecting him to eternal torment?
Am I missing some reference here?
I don’t know the exact intent of the person to whom you were replying, but the liver is in the chest area and, presumably, having it eaten would cause significant pain.
I get that but what I don’t get is the accusations that “Prometheus became a hypochondriac”. Prometheus wasn’t real. He is a supernatural entity created to explain a historical event that they knew nothing about. He is a character in a story, a story that they mentioned nothing about except for “chest pain”.
I’m sorry, I have no further info for you at this time.
yeah i speculate it simply codes for hypochondria
That’s kinda weird of an assumption.
It’s just a fictional story used as a placeholder in lieu of historical evidence of the actual event in question (discovery of fire). Same way that they explain the existence of horses as being “gifts from Poseidon made of sea foam”.
It’s just illogical nonsense, from a time period that did not understand the fallacy of their logic, attempting to explain things they did not fully understand from their limited knowledge available to them at the time.
that’s a very reductionist view of mythology though. surely people back then didn’t know the diameter of an atom, but they made observations and packed these observations into neat, memorizable stories. hypochondria is a real phenomenon, and what i’m guessing is that the greek mythologers connected “bringing knowledge to the people” to hypochondria.
i’m making that claim because i’ve observed various times in my life that hypochondria seems to affect a certain type of people, me included. and i kinda resonate with what prometheus was supposed to stand for. so that’s that.
Yes but fire is also a real phenomenon, which is what the myth is actually about: an explanation of how humanity discovered fire according to the cultural beliefs of the era.
Prometheus brought knowledge of fire to the people.
The rest of the tale is to make it fit into the establishmed mythos of what they believed the gods to be. Prometheus stole fire from Zeus, so Zeus retaliated against Prometheus with a cruel punishment, as he does in many other mythos when he has been crossed because that is how the mythos has characterized him.
You’re also forgetting to account that this was a time period where they thought these myths were explanations of reality, not fantasy. To them these weren’t just short stories but perceived as legitimate historical analysis.
Saying it is about hypochondria is reaching and, according to what you just said, projecting personal bias into the story.
yeah ok considering it’s all myth anyways, i like to give meaning to it, my own if i have to