Morgan State University - Promethean Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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MORRIS fi. SOPER LIBRARY PROMETHEAN Jt was to Prometheus, and to his brother Epimetheus, that the Greek gods entrusted the task Qf endowing animals with godlike qualities and powers. While Epimetheus was thus engaged, Prometheus occupied himself with creating man from clay. IP hen he demanded gifts with which to endow his new creature, Prometheus discovered that so generous had been his brothers gifts to the lower animals that nothing remained for man. He therefore determined to steal fire, along with the arts, from Mount Olympus and to bestow them upon man. Thus “Prometheus has come to have the meaning of life-giving, replenishment, daring originality and creativity and Promethean Eire to mean the divine flame with which Prometheus gave life to his images.