Prometheus - The Making of Man - Greek - Extra Mythology 

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"Go and persuade the sea waves not to break. You will persuade me, no more easily" BADASS

Zeus: build the life of this new age Epimethus: I'm gonna make so many ----ing bears! Prometheus: dude

"And kind of a jerk" Kind of? He was a total jerk.

I love how Prometheus is this determined, wise being who allowed himself to be tortured while his brother was just a creative idiot.

Prometheus is a good dad.

GILGAMESH! also, remember the four-word summary of nearly all greek mythology: "unfortunately, zeus was horny"

"“Hermes,” asked Prometheus, “has it ever occurred to you that I was out, in the world, for countless aeons before you imprisoned me here? If you’re so afraid of what I can do or say with a single sentence, what do you think happened when I had millennia to tailor everything just the way I wanted it? Things are going well for me, aren’t they? The gods have been brought low. Humans have never been doing better. Zeus thought he was so clever, giving them a box full of evils, but I selected every one of those evils eons beforehand. You know what was in that box, Hermes? _Things to make humanity stronger._ I gave them famine so they would invent agriculture. I gave them disease so they would invent medicine. I gave them war so they would smelt iron. And I left them hope, so that even in their darkest moments they would pull through and keep dreaming. Dream of putting all of those evils back in the box they came from and closing it forever. And they _will._ Do you know how many sentient species in the multiverse developed an industrial base, liberal democracy, and human rights without killing themselves or collapsing into barbarism, Hermes? The number is _one._ One sentient species. _Mine._”" -A Modern Myth ( slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/27/a-modern-myth/ ), a story which takes the phrase "god of forethought" to its logical conclusion.

Prometheus: Unbowed, unbent, unbroken

"And probably, people who check their phones in movie theaters." Gold. Absolute gold

I don’t understand why the ancient Greeks worshipped such awful gods, when they could’ve been worshipping Prometheus.

Kangaroo, GIVEN THE GIFT TO WALK UPRIGHT LIKE GODS!

Hermes: "Then you will spend an eternity dying!" Prometheus: "Yes, but everyone on earth will live." Hermes: "But you will suffer!" Prometheus: "Pain's an old friend."

"I believe I have a reservation for lunch, look under Eagle." "You're not funny y'know. Not now, not ever."

When interpreting "Hope" as a good or bad thing, you have to remember just what hope was in translation to the relationship between Humankind and the Gods. Hope was almost the same as pride or selfishness. The belief that one can overcome even the gods. Hope that brings forth ambitiousness, the same that would see so many Greek tales fall to their own pride. Orpheus with his hope to get his wife back from Hades, only to turn around at the last second and fail. The flight of Icarus. Arachnae in her pride and hope to best even Athena. To the Greeks, it was an evil. Hope can bring about only an even greater collapse into despair in the end.

Heracles and the heroes in a age before humankind is really confusing. Not only because they were half-human themselves, but because Heracles broke Prometheus free later on. Aside from that, I like this series, it's really good.

Fun Fact: Heracles is the original Greek tale of legend. Hercules is the Roman retelling of that legend.

Honestly Prometheus was, hands down, one of the best mythological figures in all of human history. The ancient Titans might have let the world be full of monsters, but they were never malevolent to the race of men they lorded over. In truth some of the Titans were good figures who only helped to forward the advance of Men at the time, like Hyperion, who is the Titan of Wisdom, Knowledge, and Heavenly Light.

Prometheus never told the secret? I recall that he did eventually reveal who the woman was: Thetis. She was destined to bare a child greater than his father, which is why the gods arranged for her to marry a mortal man. And this came true; her son was Achellis. EDIT: Yes, I'm aware of the Metis prophecy, and I am not confusing the two. These are two separate prophecies which both involve a (potential) son defeating his son (aka Zeus). Apparently this was a semi-frequent concern for Zeus...

Zeus "gift" for pandora was "curiosity" he DOOMED her into opening the damn box.

"Hey! What are you holding?" "Your liver, Prometheus. How long we been doing this routine?" "Other talon." "Oh, uh-" "It's an onion! You're having my liver with an onion!"

Let's see here >Molded man in gods' image >Made man greatest among the animals >Undying love for his creation >Woman created to accompany man >Woman, through curiosity, unleashes suffering upon humanity >Sacrificed himself to save his creations Noticing parallels to something?

People that check their phone in movie theater is nothing compare to people that don't flush in public toilet. 😜

People always ask WHO is prometheus Not *HOW is prometheus*

Fun fact: At 5:52, the two servant siblings, Force and Violence, are named Bia and Kratos. I'm really digging the campfire intro for the mythology series. 👍

If you're doing Greek myths, you should probably use Heracles, rather than Hercules.

"But Zeus was cunning... And kinda of a jerk." KINDA!??

The greatest gift of all... walking upright. Penguins Kangaroos Chickens Some lizards Ducks Sometimes cockroaches Geese Crows Mice Chipmunks Ostriches ... ... ...

"Go and persuade the sea waves not to break. You will persuade me no more easily". What I love most about old tales and mythology is the creative ways the characters tell each other to shove it.

In some versions of the story of Pandora it was Epimetheus who, in an act of both jealousy and unhindered curiosity, opened the box to let out the blights to humanity, while Pandora was still the one to close it, trapping hope.

"Basically, he (Zeus) was a jerk." Greatest understatement of the pantheon.

I always heard that the last thing in Pandora’s Box was Foreboding, which was good that it stayed because with it humanity would know all the evils that would befall them over the course of their lives.

Again, the period of the Theogony was NOT the Age of Heroes. That was widely held to be the period of Homeric heroes who, obviously, could not have existed before the creation of mortal humans.

I'm glad you guys slipping in the part about hope being one of the curses of Pandora. One of the things I learned from studying Greek Mythology at university was that the Greeks themselves tended to view the hope in the story as the last, greatest evil that beset mankind, because it allowed us to blind ourselves to reason and necessary action, and become slothful in the face of difficulty. The detail of hope being the sort of "saving grace" of Pandora is a far later addition by later cultures reinterpreting the myths through their own lenses.

Prometheus is such a good boy.

Prometheus was punished by the gods for giving the gift of knowledge to man. He was cast into the bowels of the Earth and pecked by birds

It's pronounced Epi-MEE-theus, not Epi-TEE-meus

I have to say I absolutely ADORE the artwork for this series. Big, big kudos to the team!

Extra Mythology is quickly becoming my favourite show on here.

5:00 What the hell you got against moths?

Can you make a series about an asian mythology?

A creator who loves humanity to the point of being willingly bound and tortured? Sounds familiar...

"...Tyranny was made to bend before he" I got goosebumps hearing that! That was so damn good 😁!

For real, I need more of that Extra Mythology Theme music. I will love you guys more than I already do (and I REALLY love you guys) if you could make a complete version of that theme available. You guys are the best! Thanks for all you do! Spread the knowledge! 👍

Damn it Pandora! Why did you let out the evilest of sins! Checking your phone during a movie! *checking his phone during a movie* curse you woman!!

"Go and persuade the sea waves not to break. You will persuade me, no more easily" Prometheus DOES know that Poseidon can literally do that, right?

Its getting there, I enjoyed this one more. Im really glad you addressed the fact that lots of the stories have different versions.

Greek Myths are easily my favorite study subject, and the ending theme is simply divine

I LOVE THIS NEW SERIES!!

Epimethus with that mono green deck

The relating the power of forethought to the capacity to resist injustice is a good motif.

My favorite mythology so far

Ah, yes. good old Epithemeus. XD I kid. I love it. Good video! :D

People that commit the mortal sin of checking their phone in a movie theater are bound to hades himself.

Epithemius: experience now, think later. Prometheus: think first, do it later

This is my favorite series and that is saying a lot. More please!

You said “Epithemeus” instead of “Epimetheus” this video, but great video!

0:50 Totally could've slipped in a Jabberwocky reference there.

I absolutely love this! Pleeeaasssee keep the campfire aesthetic, it's so perfect...

You gotta admire how creative they were about explaining why the much less useful bones and fat would be sacrificed instead of the meat necessary for survival. Made for a pretty neat tale about tricking tyrants to boot.

Something that always bothered me about Pandora's myth : she lets evil out by opening the box, but we still have hope because she closed the box. So what do we get ? Thing that are inside the box or things that are let out of the box ?

the original make a man out of you clay editon

Zeus: SUBMIT TO ME! Prometheus: *sticks up middle finger*

Thank you Prometheus. For everything.

Thanks, Prometheus!

So Prometheus created Mankind? Huh, so THAT is why Frankenstein is ”The Modern Prometheus”! I always thought it had something to do with taking something only God was supposed to be able to do (fire/create life) and give that power to humanity to amorality muck around with.... my Idea was better, I am kind of sad now.

How can you imbue bean people with such emotion and subtlety? Last images of Prometheus almost made me cry

The greatest threat to Zeus, that Prometheus won’t tell him about, is none other than Kratos.

I'm glad Extra Credits has attended the school of running away from things... Oh wait, wrong Prometheus.

Epimetheus made Australia didn’t he...sigh, figures.

Thank you, Prometheus

In another virsion Kratos the son of Zeus and the fallen god of war, freed Prometheus putting him out of his misery and burning him alive in the fire of Olympus.

I remember reading in class that Zeus actually gave him his freedom after seeing all the accomplishments of man

Epi-ME-theus, brother of Pro-ME-theus.

Hercules: **Frees Prometheus** Zeus: HERA! GIVE ME A CHANCE TO TORMENT THE LAD NOW!

man this was good I knew bits and pieces of this myth but never the whole thing and never told in such a majestic way great job ec! you outdid yourselves this time and I can't wait to see more oh and that outro theme? top notch I love BGC glad you got him to do it!

Whenever I hear "Prometheus", I can only think of Michael Fassbender. 😂

Prometheus best god.

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."

I never get tired of the story of Prometheus

7:37, wow Hermes is a freak...

Great, now I want Liver and Onions.

The pain of Prometheus was evident in his scream. Excellent artwork.

Words don’t describe how much I love this serious

I've read his name was Epimetheus, not Epithemeus.

You did make one mistake: You went by the roman name of one of the gods while using the greek names of all of the other gods (you called Heracles by his more famous name Hercules).

This is one of the most exciting videos I’ve seen on Greek mythology.

It's interesting how nobody remembers ANYTHING other than the box of Pandora... they don't remember how Pandora, in the GENERAL SENSE, was written as a generally horrible, selfish, problem seeking individual (The Greeks Hated Women, remember!) who drank all the water, distracted the working men and continually caused all sorts of more general and simple problems like accidentally knocking things over on a NEAR constant basis and never doing any work herself. Epimethius was NOT happy with her. NOBODY was happy with her... Zeus did not make her as a "gift" to mankind. He made her as a trap, a punishment for all the deception he felt he'd been dealt. Promethius was actually REALLY serious about Pandora being a BAD thing cause he had the ability to see Pandora for what she was, but his brother wouldn't listen cause he couldn't see it.

EpiMEtheus, not Epithemeus This bothered me a lot

Hang on if men are made after the age of heroes, then what kind of species are heroes, since aren't they half gods and half men?

Prometheus has always been my favorite in the pantheon. He's so overlooked next to Hercules and others.

That eagle was the one the sons of Echidna and Typhon and the brother of the Chimera, Orthus, Cerberus, the Lernaean Hydra, the Sphinx, Ladon, the Crommyonian Sow, the Colchian Dragon, Scylla, the two adoptive gorgon sisters of Medusa, and of course the Neaman lion.

Even I can see the continuity gaffs with these stories.

You mispronoucning Epimetheus every time is just driving me bananas.

This story and your voice are a devine combo

That. Was. EPIC!!! Please please give us more!

It is interesting how much this mirrors chrisitanity

Poor Epimetheus getting his name butchered so many times. :(

I could listen to this all day.

I wish I had a way to get that extra mythology theme its awesome