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The many-headed Hydra nearly defeated the hero Heracles by growing two new heads for every one that Heracles cut off, and the liver of Prometheus, devoured by a ravenous eagle each night, regenerated every morning.
Subtitling, also encouraged by Ms. Whitehead, can conspire magnificently with a plot-revealing title: A Novel Without a Hero says it all; Or, The Modern Prometheus tells us what Mrs. Shelley had in mind; A Tale of the Christ prepares us for more than chariot races, and so on.
The 26 richly-decorated salons (just a fraction of the Medici residence) are named after the themes of their 17th-century frescoes — Venus, Hercules, Prometheus, etc.
As Aeschylus wrote of Zeus in Prometheus Bound , "He cannot fly from Fate."
Thus, to BBC announcers, President Clinton's residence is the White House , while, to Americans, it is the White House; and I once heard a BBC announcer say Prometheus Bound when an American would have said Prometheus Bound .
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