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all his other eaten children. The Titanomachy ensued: a
ten-year war between Zeus and his siblings on one side
and the rest of the Titans on the other that shook the
universe to its foundations.
There was one Titan battling on Zeus’s side:
Prometheus. His name means “he who thinks ahead.”
His insistence on using guile rather than brute force
was laughed off by his fellow Titans, and so
Prometheus abandoned them to their fate and made his
ingenuity available to Zeus’s faction. Thanks to
Prometheus’s strategic talent, Zeus won. He and his
brothers and sisters took their thrones on Mount
Olympus. The rest of the Titans, defeated, were
consigned to the hell of Tartarus, while Prometheus’s
half-brother Atlas was forced to hold up the sky for all
eternity.
Prometheus, alone of his kind now free, created
men out of clay. Zeus, ever ready to pull the ladder up
after himself, was afraid that men in turn might seek to
challenge his kingly position, and called for them to be
utterly wiped out. The Titan, however, loved his
creations so dearly that he stole a spark from the forge
of Hephaestus and carried it down to men, hidden in a
stalk of fennel. Pyrotechnia, the art of fire, the source
of all knowledge, was now man’s. Prometheus