Prometheus : Archetypal Image of Human Existence, Paperback by Kerenyi, Karl;...

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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 Prometheuss release reflected a primordial law of existence and the fate of humankind. Carl Kernyi 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. Kernyi 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.

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Book Title: Prometheus : Archetypal Image of Human Existence

Number of Pages: 184 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Prometheus Pt. 1, Vol. 65 : Archetypal Image of Human Existence

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Publication Year: 1997

Subject: Movements / Psychoanalysis, Folklore & Mythology, Ancient & Classical

Item Height: 0.7 in

Features: Revised

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 1 Oz

Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science, Psychology

Item Length: 8.9 in

Author: Carl Kerényi

Series: Mythos: the Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology Ser.

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Trade Paperback