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Myth Creative Assignment, Due July 26 (worth 25%)
You are a journalist/editor/author for a blog/podcast/YouTube Channel/Newspaper/Newscast/magazine, and you’ve just been given an exclusive interview with one of main characters from Prometheus Bound: Prometheus, Io, Hephaestus, Oceanus, Hermes. You must choose one of these individuals and provide an interview, or the script of an interview (in the case of a Newscast, podcast, or YouTube video), that you’ve carried out with them. This character has just read Hesiod’s Theogony and has publicly commented on that poem. In the eyes of your character, does the poem provide a fair depiction of Zeus?
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Script of the Interview with Prometheus
In the Theogony, Prometheus is depicted as a trickster. He tricked Zeus into picking
bones for his sacrifices. “Prometheus covered flesh and innards rich in fat with the ox's stomach
and set them down wrapped in the hide. For them, he covered the ox's white bones with shining
fat and, well arranging them for his cunning trick, set them down” (Hesiod, Theogony 540).
Prometheus has the gift of foresight. It is possible he already knew what Zeus would pick. “With
both hands, he took the white fat, and grew angry around his breast, and bitter bile entered his
mind when he saw the ox's white bones in a cunning trick” (Hesiod, Theogony 555). This
document contains a script of an interview with Prometheus.
What crime did you commit to deserve such a horrible punishment?
It all began with the war between the Titans and Zeus. I was born a Titan, but when I
tried to help them, they refused my guile and decided to employ force instead. Then, I offered
my guile to the Olympian god, Zeus. I practically won him the war, enabling him to imprison the
titan gods in the Tartarus. Zeus, punished me because like every tyrant, he must distrust his
friends. His plan was to destroy all humanity, but I stood on humanity's side. I gave humanity
hope and fire. I do not con...