Neither Good Nor Bad: How Prometheus Stole Fire for Humankind

By Lowell Uda

After exploring the human character and condition through the retelling a number of Polynesian myths and legends in Under the Hala Tree: Twice Told Polynesian Myths and Legends, the author found himself returning to the Greek myths, legends and fables that inspired his childhood and so much of Western literature. In this retelling of a Greek myth, he explores and comments on the human character and condition through the story of how the Titan Prometheus so loved the creatures he had created that he stole fire from the gods and gave it to them to further their intellectual and technological development and the development of civilization. But was there a price to pay, for Prometheus and us?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rice Universe Publishing
• Release date: Mar 27, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301528332

Lowell Uda

A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, I have taught English at the U. of Hawaii and the U. of Montana, and worked in Montana state government. After that I became a United Methodist minister, pastoring churches in Colorado and Montana. My short story, “The Cherry Tree,” won first prize in the 2011 Common Review Short Story Prize contest. Stories, poems, and creative nonfiction of mine have appeared in literary and other magazines, including The North American Review, the Hawaii Review, the Chariton Review, and, most recently, A River and Sound Review, Written River, The Whirlwind Review, 5x5, Assisi, In Our Own Voice, Divide: Journal of Literature, Arts and Ideas, Poems Across the Big Sky, Moonrabbit Review, and The Other Side.Sincerely yours,

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Neither Good nor Bad:

How Prometheus Stole Fire for Humankind

by Lowell Uda

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Copyright Lowell Uda 2013

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How Prometheus Stole Fire for Humankind

Out of mud the Titan Prometheus made men. In Phocis, on the banks of the Cephissus River, he molded them in the likeness of Olympian gods--some like Zeus, God of the Heavens, some like Hades, God of the Underworld, and some like Poseidon, God of the Seas. Zeus' daughter Athena, Goddess of Wisdom, breathed life into them.

''You had better watch out, now, said Athena. Zeus