Why is Prometheus considered a hero in the Greek mythology but

>>2817480
Nobody considers Prometheus a hero in Greek mythology except for Aeschylus in Prometheus bound
>But he gave mankind fire
Granted, but he was never seen as heroic for it. While Prometheus benefitted humans he mostly did so out of spite for Zeus and regret for not aiding the titans in the Titanomachy. Eventually his "fire bestowing" was attributed to Hermes and Haephastus.

>OP hasn't read Paradise Lost

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>In another version, Hades was sent to chain Sisyphus and was chained himself. As long as Hades was tied up, nobody could die. Because of this, sacrifices could not be made to the gods, and those that were old and sick were suffering. The gods finally threatened to make life so miserable for Sisyphus that he would wish he were dead. He then had no choice but to release Hades.[10]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus#

>>2817480
>Why is Prometheus considered a hero in the Greek mythology but Satan is the villain in Christianity?

YOU ARE REFERRING TO TWO DIFFERENT BEINGS.

Aren't they basically the same archetype?

NO.

PROMETHEUS IS EQUIVALENT WITH LUCIFER; PROMETHEUS/LUCIFER IS BENEVOLENT.

SATAN IS EQUIVALENT WITH ZEUS, AND WITH YHWH; SATAN/ZEUS/YHWH IS MALEVOLENT.

Wouldn't it actually be more accurate to say that Jesus is the Prometheus figure in Christianity? Satan took something away from man, while Jesus gave them something.

>>2817480
Prometheus actually did something for mankind. Satan just chose to be an egotistical dick to no benefit at all for mankind.

>>2818061
OP is saying that the original sin is analogous to fire.

>>2818016
t. Hermann Hesse

>>2818752
sauce?

>>2817480
That's a beautiful statue.

>>2818779
"Demian", the book has a major theme of good and evil being united in the god Abraxas

>>2818790
also, Abel is the bad guy in Demian's view.

>>2817480
Thats an awesome sculpture

>>2818790
How does that even relate to what REI posted?

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>>2818819
Shit, just realized that. sorry.
You could argue that Demian also has a theme of turning the moral perspective around, like in it's interpretation of the story of Kain & Abel, but that really doesn't happen that much in the book anyway.

>>2817480
Prometheus was never considered a hero in Greek myth, except by Aeschylus, who was pulling a OOOH WOULDN'T IT BE COOL IF I MADE THE BAD GUY THE GOOD GUY??? OOOOH

>>2817480
>implying both have the same religious culture
I still don't understand why want to make this comparison when both religious culture have different views of the divine realm.

>>2818850
>its interpretation of the story of Kain & Abel
Care to develop ?

>>2818016
Go back to /lit/ you fucking garbage tripcuck

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Greeks didn't worship gods. Socrates and Persian monotheists fucked up everything with their insistence on rationality and morality. We need to go beyond good and evil. I am the antichrist.

As usual, you got it literally completely ass backwards.

Prometheus plays a typical scapegoat role of pagan myth. He is justly persecuted for his crime. He is not at all considered a positive figure in Greek religion, only redefined as such much much later in Greek theatre, which is a deconstruction of Greek myth.

The equivalent of such a scapegoat in Christianity is Jesus, except he is obviously an extremely positive figure, because the entire point of Christianity is to reveal the falsehood of the pagan scapegoating and the innocence of the persecuted.

>>2818850
Still, it would have nothing to do with REI's post...
Fix your reading comprehension.

>>2817480
>Prometheus and Satan same archetype

Wut? They come from totally different cultural backgrounds and represent different themes.

>>2818949
The friend of the protagonist, a guy called demian, talks about the biblical story of Kain & Abel. He claims that Kain was actually a person with great might born with a sign on his skin. People were afraid of Kain, so they either made up the story of him killing his own brother or used the murder of Abel as an excuse to speak ill of this man. Demian also asserts that the sign god gave to Kain was actually just something like a birthmark, a thing people used as an excuse to let this guy they were so afraid of be, because "god gave him a sign which means he should remain untouched".