Is Prometheus' punishment fair?

First, the gods then did not have to be “fair” by human standards. They didn't need to justify their actions. Especially not the king of the gods. From a gods' view, fairness is irrelevant. What mattered was that Prometheus went against Zeus' orders and brought fire to man. And so he was punished. read more

Later, Zeus is sorry for having inflicted this punishment to Prometheus because he once gave him a good advice: to not marry Thetis to avoid having a child that is more powerful than him ( This child, when he will grow up, could dethrone Zeus.) . read more

Prometheus first appears in Greek art in a 7th century BCE ivory from Sparta and on Greek pottery from c. 600 BCE, usually being punished. The myth of Prometheus and his terrible punishment by Zeus was the theme of tragic poet Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound. read more

The story of Prometheus and the narration of his punishment have been told and retold in different ways throughout the centuries. From Antiquity to the present , poets , writers, philosophers and various thinkers on the whole made contradictory assumptions, conjectures , explanations , extrapolations , comparisons and conclusions related to the story of Prometheus. read more