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noun Promethean
  1. one who acts in a Promethean manner
adjective Promethean
  1. of or pertaining to Prometheus
  2. daringly original; boldly inventive or creative
  3. of a Romantic literary hero: one who is a rebel against a larger order, one who defies traditional moral categories, persecuted but dauntless
Etymology: From Prometheus a Greek demigod and the son of the Titan Iapetus. Prometheus created man from clay and gifted him with fire, for which he was punished by Zeus who chained Prometheus to a rock in the Caucasus where a vulture came and daily fed on his liver. Prometheus means "forethought" in Greek, from pro- "before" + ''mathein "to learn."


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