Example sentences for: prometheus

How can you use “prometheus” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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 .

  • 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.

  • (The element with atomic number 61 is not found naturally, and this number was allocated to promethium , when proof of its existence was confirmed by American chemists, who named it for Prometheus, in Greek mythology the earliest teacher and benefactor of mankind.)

  • 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.


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