- Prometheus (Fore-thought) tricks Zeus into taking undesirable part of sacrifice
- Steals fire for man
- Saves Deucalion from world ending flood
- Pandora: (All-gifted)
- First Mortal woman
- Gods bestow many gifts on her
- She loses all of them but hope. (some versions the jar contains only blessings)
- The price of knowledge (fire) is the loss of innocence (blessings).
- 5 Ages of Man: (From Hesiod’s Work and Days)
- The Age of Gold is the first age of man according to Hesiod’s Work and Days. This age was a paradise before the creation of women when Kronos ruled. Men lived in peace and were free of toil or anxiety.
- The Age of Silver is the second age of man according to Hesiod’s Work and Days. This is an age of extreme opposites. Men take a hundred years to mature but dies shortly after from extreme recklessness. These men were created by the Olympian gods but refuse to worship them.
- The Age of Bronze is the third age of man according to Hesiod’s Work and Days. Zeus created men from ash trees. These men are incapable of peaceful activities and pursue mindless violent conflict and achieve only mutual extermination.
- The Age of Heroes is the fourth age of man according to Hesiod’s Work and Days. Although a short era, this is the only period in which man does not decline. This is the period of the great heroes from the Homeric epics. Zeus carries off some of the best heroes to enjoy a paradise like that found during the Age of Gold.
- The Age of Iron is the fifth and last epoch of the ages of man according to Hesiod’s Works and Days. This is the period Hesiod lived in. This is a time of despotic rulers who oppress the local farmers. Zeus plans to wipe men from this age out also. A sign of the coming end will be when children are born with gray hair and natural affection among family members will disappear.