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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 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.)
As Aeschylus wrote of Zeus in Prometheus Bound , "He cannot fly from Fate."
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.
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.