Prometheus (disambiguation)

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In Greek mythology, Prometheus, or Prometheas is the Titan chiefly honored for stealing fire from the gods.

Prometheus may also mean:

[edit] Astronomy

• Prometheus (moon), the moon of Saturn
• 1809 Prometheus, an asteroid.
• Prometheus, an active volcano on Jupiter's moon Io
• Prometheus Mesa, a mesa on Jupiter's moon Io

[edit] Technology

• Project Prometheus, NASA's nuclear propulsion program
• USS Prometheus, multiple ships
• The Prometheus System, a liver dialysis system by Fresenius Medical Care AG
• Prometheus, a GWR Iron Duke Class steam locomotive

[edit] Arts

[edit] Literature

• Prometheus Bound, by Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, a play
• "Prometheus" (Goethe), a poem by Goethe
• Prometheus Unbound, two different plays, one from the Greek Golden Age and one from the 19th century by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Prometheus (comics), the DC Comics supervillain
• Prometheus (Pantheon), a fictional member of the Marvel Comics Pantheon
• Prometheus Award, given in libertarian science fiction
• "Prometheus", a poem by George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
• "Prometheus", 1832 poem by Thomas Kibble Hervey
• The Modern Prometheus, alternative title to Frankenstein
• Promethidion, by Cyprian Norwid, a poem on Greek dialogue
• "Prometheus" - A short story by Franz Kafka.

[edit] Film and television

• Prometheus and Bob, a claymation show on the Nickelodeon show KaBlam!
• Prometheus class starship, a fictional attack vessel from the Star Trek universe
• Prometheus (Stargate), a fictional vessel in Stargate SG-1, first seen in the episode Prometheus
• Prometheus, 1998 film by Tony Harrison, feature film with poetic dialogue linking the myth to industrial decline

[edit] Visual arts

• Prometheus, a mural at Pomona College, California, painted by José Clemente Orozco

[edit] Music

• Prometheus chord/scale, a six-note chord more commonly refered to as the Mystic chord
• Prometheus (Liszt), by Franz Liszt, Symphonic Poem No. 5
• Prometheus: Poem of Fire, 1910 orchestral poem by Alexander Scriabin
• Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise, the most recent full-length released by symphonic black metal band Emperor
• "Prometheus" (art song), 1819 song by Franz Schubert
• Prometheus, stage name of Benji Vaughan, a British psychedelic trance musician
• Prometheus, composition by Ludwig van Beethoven, Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus, op. 43
• Prometheus Unbound, by Granville Bantock, 1933, a work for brass band
• Prometheus, 1968 opera by Carl Orff
• Prometheus, by Luigi Nono, 1992, the "Prometeo" Suite
• "Prometheus Bound", by Charles-Valentin Alkan, Grande Sonate: Les Quatres Ages, fourth movement (50 Ans)

[edit] Publishing House

• Prometheus Books, secular humanist publishing house founded in 1969 by Paul Kurtz

[edit] Games

• Promethean: The Created, a game published by White Wolf, Inc Game studios
• Prometheus, a video game character from Mega Man ZX series
• Prometheus, a computer game character from the Earthsiege and Starsiege series.

[edit] Other

• Prometheus Radio Project helps create participatory media by assisting civil society groups in building community radio stations.
• Prometheus (tree), the name given to the oldest tree ever known, a 5000 yr old Bristlecone Pine
• Prometheism, a Polish project to weaken Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union
• Prometheus Society, a High-IQ society.
• Prometheus Camp, Humanist coming of age summer camps in Finland, organised by the Prometheus Camp Association
• American Prometheus, a biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer which received the 2006 Pulitzer Prize