Prometheus: Archetypal Image of Human Existence (Archetypal Images in Greek Religion (1) (Bollingen Recollections, 1, Band 1) - Softcover

Kerenyi, Karl

 
9780691281759: Prometheus: Archetypal Image of Human Existence (Archetypal Images in Greek Religion (1) (Bollingen Recollections, 1, Band 1)
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ISBN 10: 0691281750 ISBN 13: 9780691281759
Verlag: Princeton University Press, 2026

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A landmark account of the Prometheus story as myth and archetype

The god Prometheus stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at his liver until Herakles freed him. For the Greeks, the myth of Prometheus’s release reflected a primordial law of existence and the fate of humankind. Carl Kerényi examines the story of Prometheus and the very process of mythmaking as a reflection of the archetypal function and seeks to discover how this primitive tale was invested with a universal fatality, first in the Greek imagination and then in the Western tradition of Romantic poetry. Kerényi traces the evolving myth from Hesiod and Aeschylus, and in its epic treatment by Goethe and Shelley. He goes on to consider the myth from the perspective of Jungian psychology as the archetype of human daring signifying the transformation of suffering into the mystery of the sacrifice.

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Carl Kerényi (1897–1973) was a Hungarian scholar of classical philology and the history of religion. He made significant contributions to the modern study of Greek mythology and collaborated with figures like C. G. Jung in exploring mythological archetypes.

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Verlag
Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0691281750
ISBN 13 
9780691281759
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Anzahl der Seiten
184
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