Promethean

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Promethean may refer to:

• Prometheus, a character from Greek mythology, who was punished by the gods for stealing fire from the heavens to give to humans
• "Prometheus", an 1816 poem by Lord Byron
• Prometheus Unbound, a Greek play by Aeschylus
• Prometheus Unbound, an 1820 lyrical drama by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Mary Shelley gave her novel Frankenstein the subtitle The Modern Prometheus
• Promethean: The Created, a role-playing game published by White Wolf, Inc., involving artificial life forms similar to Frankenstein's monster
• Promethean Ltd: a global education company based in the UK

See also

• Prometheus (disambiguation)
• Prometheism, political project initiated by Poland's Józef Piłsudski