. The Open court. te into the presence of Paris, who is tendinghis flocks in company with his wife Oinone. Hera and Athene are at the right of Paris; Aphro-dite is at his left. Eros leans on his left shoulder. Herakles, Artemis, Helios, a river god, anda nymph witness the scene. ON GREEK RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY, 649 marry, was (like Themis) destined to bear a child that would begreater than his father. In Hesiods Theogony Prometheus appears as a mere mischief-maker, but in the later development of religious thought he be-comes the ideal of human progressiveness and courage of thought,being a Gr
. The Open court. te into the presence of Paris, who is tendinghis flocks in company with his wife Oinone. Hera and Athene are at the right of Paris; Aphro-dite is at his left. Eros leans on his left shoulder. Herakles, Artemis, Helios, a river god, anda nymph witness the scene. ON GREEK RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY, 649 marry, was (like Themis) destined to bear a child that would begreater than his father. In Hesiods Theogony Prometheus appears as a mere mischief-maker, but in the later development of religious thought he be-comes the ideal of human progressiveness and courage of thought,being a Greek anticipation of, and a parallel to, the Faust characterin the legends of the times of the Renaissance. Prometheus, the Forethinker, is contrasted with his brotherEpimetheus, the man of after-thought. Prometheus had warnedEpimetheus not to accept any gift from Zeus, but the latter found awoman whom he called Pandora, the all-gift, so beautiful thatEpimetheus could not resist the temptation and received her with. ISDUBAR, THE BABYLONIAN HeRAKLES, CONQUERING THE LlON. (Lenormant. Histoire ancienne de r Orient, Vol. V., p. 178.) a box of gifts into his house. When the box was opened all the illsthat f^esh is heir to flew out, filling the world with woe. The Promethean spirit is powerfully described by Goethe inhis poem Prometheus, where the bold Forethinker is characterisedas taking his stand against Zeus and building up an independentliberty-loving humanity in spite of the tyrant in heaven. Zeus was slow in granting man his liberty, but apparently hedid not mean to become an enemy to human progress. Thus Zeusand Prometheus were reconciled and now the God is warned bythe prophetic Titan of the danger that threatened him. Zeus there-upon has Thetis married to Peleus, a mortal, whose son Achilles 650 THE OPEN COURT. becomes the famous hero of Homers Iliad. The wedding of Peleusis the beginning of the Trojan war, for Eris, the goddess of quarrel,the only deity that was not invited
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