. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. climbed up to a high and a dry ground. Zeus sawthat two of the race of men had been left alive. But he sawthat these two were just and kindly, and had a right rever-ence for the gods. He spared them, and he saw their childrenagain peopling the earth. Prometheus, who had saved them, looked on the men andwomen of the earth with compassion. Their labor was hard,and they wrought much to gain little. They were chilled atnight in their houses, and the winds that blew in the daytimemade the old men and women bend double like a wheel. Pro-m
. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. climbed up to a high and a dry ground. Zeus sawthat two of the race of men had been left alive. But he sawthat these two were just and kindly, and had a right rever-ence for the gods. He spared them, and he saw their childrenagain peopling the earth. Prometheus, who had saved them, looked on the men andwomen of the earth with compassion. Their labor was hard,and they wrought much to gain little. They were chilled atnight in their houses, and the winds that blew in the daytimemade the old men and women bend double like a wheel. Pro-metheus thought to himself that if men and women had the ele-ment that only the gods knew of — the element of fire — theycould make for themselves implements for labor; they couldbuild houses that would keep out the chilling winds, and theycould warm themselves at the blaze. But the gods had not willed tha«. men should have fire,and to go against the will of the gods would be impious. Prome-theus went against the will of the gods. He stole fire from the. THE VOYAGE TO COLCHIS 103 altar of Zeus, and he hid it in a hollow fennel stalk, and hebrought it to men. Then men were able to hammer iron into tools, and cut downforests with axes, and sow grain where the forests had were they able to make houses that the storms couldnot overthrow, and they were able to warm themselves at hearthfires. They had rest from their labor at times. They builtcities; they became beings who no longer had heads and backsbent but were able to raise their faces even to the gods. And Zeus spared the race of men who had now the sacredelement of fire. But he knew that Prometheus had stolen thisfire even from his own altar and had given it to men. And hethought on how he might punish the great Titan god for hisimpiety. He brought back from the Underworld the giants that hehad put there to guard the Titans that had been hurled down toTartarus. He brought back Gyes, Cottus, and Briareus, andhe co
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