Inspired by religion discussion on Main

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> Carol responds:
> But he didn't actually die and rise from the dead. All that happened is that his liver grew back overnight and was eaten again the next day--and the next and the next for what the Greeks must have assumed was all eternity. A horrible fate, indeed, but it's not the same thing as death and resurrection. Prometheus, not being human or part human, couldn't die (in the Greek view of divinity, which differs in that respect from the Egyptian and Norse view). The Titans were overthrown and banished (for the most part) to Tartarus; they weren't killed because they couldn't die, and none of them, including Prometheus, was resurrected. (I can't recall whether they suffered specific punishments like Sisyphus and Tantalus, who were both mortals.)
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> Carol, who sees the parallel but thinks that, despite his immortality, Prometheus' fate more closely resembles the eternal punishment of wicked mortals in Tartarus than the death and resurrection of Christ


Alla:

Eh, good enough for me, really :) It is the closest I saw anyways. He wanted to help a whole lot of people, suffered for it and then was restored, I am perfectly happy even with similarities, you know?

Pippin suggested Castor and Pollux, but one brother basically sacrificed for another brother, nobody else, Prometheus seems to be the only known mythological figure who suffered for the good of many people (I mean known to me so far, if somebody knows others please step up :)).