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439 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898) alphabetic letter H
   For instance, the Prometheus is a piece for two actors, yet in the opening scene there are four persons upon the stage—Prometheus, Hephaestus, and the allegorical (40.47)

2. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD) alphabetic letter E
   It may here be noticed that in mythical genealogy Europa is the wife of Zeus, while Asia is the sister or wife of Prometheus: and thus apparently the line of Zeus and the Olympian divinities is connected with our continent; and the line of Prometheus, Epimetheus, Atlas, &c., or the Titanic powers, with Asia and Libya. (26.71)

3. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890) (eds. G. E. Marindin, William Smith, LLD, William Wayte) alphabetic letter H
   is a piece for two actors, yet in the opening scene there are four persons upon the stage--Prometheus, Hephaestus, and the allegorical (21.87)

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2 from The Works of Christopher Marlowe

1. Christopher Marlowe, Dido, Queen of Carthage act 3, scene 4, line 18
   Dido The man that I doe eye where ere I am,
   Whose amorous face like Pean sparkles fire,
   When as he buts his beames on Floras bed,
   Prometheus hath put on Cupids shape,
   And I must perish in his burning armes.
   (4.05)

2. Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander part 1, subpart sestyad 1
   He inly storm'd, and waxt more furious,
   Than for the fire filcht by Prometheus;
   And thrusts him down from heaven: he wandring here,
   In mournfull tearmes, with sad and heavie cheare
   Complaind to Cupid; Cupid for his sake,
   To be reveng'd on Jove, did undertake,
   And those on whom heaven, earth, and hell relies,
   I mean the Adamantine Destinies,
   He wounds with love, and forst them equallie,
   To dote upon deceitfull Mercurie.
   (1.55)

8 from Renaissance Materials

1. Alexander Dyce, A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works alphabetic letter V, entry vulture
   The, “Alluding to the tale of Prometheus’. (10.30)

2. C. T. Onions, A Shakespeare Glossary entry prolong
   prolong:to defer, put off , were the day prolong' Prometheanfire: fire stolen by the demigod Prometheus from Olympus and conveyed to men, to whom he taught its use; allusively applied to that which inspires or infuses life , ; so Promethean heat. (5.53)

3. Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary entry Vulture
   Emblem of internal torments (in allusion to the fable of Prometheus): let --s gripe thy guts, . (5.38)

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6 from The Bolles Collection on the History of London

1. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter B, entry 4064
   poetess; the name of Barrett adopted by her father, originally named Moulton on succeeding to an estate; read Homer in Greek and wrote verses at the age of eight; her spine injured by a fall at the age of fifteen, in consequence of which for many years she was compelled to lie on her back; published her ‘Essay on Mind,’ 1826, and in 1833, ‘Prometheus Bound,’ her first volume of poems; constantly wrote prose and verse from this time onwards; met Robert Browning, 1845; married him, 1846, and went with him through France to Florence, where they mainly resided till her death. (4.26)

2. Walter Thornbury, A Narrative of its History, its People and its Places. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings from the Most Authentic Sources.: Old and New London: Volume 1 chapter 10, page 113
   Skipping up the ladder again, the son of Prometheus lifted the cover, thrust the torch he carried into the heated vapour rising from the wick, and instantly the ready flame sprang restored to life. (4.05)

3. London: Volume 4 (ed. Charles Knight) chapter 5
   It were absurd to place Prometheus or Lear-the Cartoons or the paintings of the Sistine Chapel-before an uneducated rustic, or, except in peculiar cases, to endeavour to make him appreciate suddenly the music of the Messiah; but take the same man, with no other idea of an abbey than as a something vastly bigger than his own parish church, and place him in the edifice before us, dark indeed must be his soul if, as he looks around, a divine ray does not enter into it; if he feels not, in however imperfect and transitory a manner, the influence of the sublime. (3.84)

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15 from American Memory: California

1. A Frenchman in the gold rush; the journal of Ernest de Massey, Argonaut of 1849, translated by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur page 59
   Tradition does not say whether or not this trick was handed down to the Indians from Prometheus. (5.25)

2. California: its gold and its inhabitants page 29
   By the "Independence" steamer, news has arrived from Nicaragua, that the British ship-of-war "Express" has fired at the American steamer "Prometheus," with passengers for California; it is alleged the latter would not pay the harbour-dues--very consistent. (4.49)

3. Our Italy, by Charles Dudley Warner page 224
   Prometheus Unbound, 178. (4.49)

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9 from American Memory: Upper Midwest

1. Lucinda Hinsdale Stone, her life story and reminiscences. By Belle McArthur Perry ... Introduction by Ellen M. Henrotin page 116
   Among other passages in Livy I had the celebrated crossing of the Alps and the destruction of the Titans, and the soliloquy beginning with, ‘O divine ether,’ in ‘Prometheus Bound,’ which is in itself a senior study, but I had read it the year before. (5.25)

2. Memoirs of Jeremiah Curtin page 143
   At midnight, exactly at midnight, at the end of the year, when the mouse had but one more gnaw to give and Prometheus would be free, the midnight hour struck and that moment the chains grew together. (4.15)

3. Memoirs of Jeremiah Curtin page 137
   The whole country is divided by two rivers which rise in the ‘Prometheus mountain’ (Kazbee); one flows south, the other north, and up and down the two great ravines winds the Georgian military road. (3.74)

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3 from American Memory: Chesapeake Bay

1. George Alfred Townsend, Washington, outside and inside. A picture and a narrative of the origin, growth, excellencies, abuses, beauties, and personages of our governing city. By Geo. Alfred Townsend page 114
   Perhaps Prometheus was only a man with a perpetual corn. (4.05)

2. Margaret (Bayard) Smith, The first forty years of Washington society, potrayed by the family letters of Mrs. Samuel Harrison Smith (Margaret Bayard) from the collection of her grandson J. Henley Smith page 183
   When Prometheus made a man out of clay,” said Mr. W., “he stole fire from heaven to animate him. (4.05)

3. George Alfred Townsend, Washington, outside and inside. A picture and a narrative of the origin, growth, excellencies, abuses, beauties, and personages of our governing city. By Geo. Alfred Townsend page 732
   From Alexandria to Mount Vernon Gate, by road one sees nothing but deep gulleys, skirts of swamp, and a couple of creeks which eat the bowels out of the hills year by year with the industry of Prometheus' vulture. (2.23)

54 from Beazley Archive

1. Beazley Archive Pottery Database entry 16177
   HEAD AND ARM OF SATYR, ARM OF PROMETHEUS (? (8.82)

2. Beazley Archive Pottery Database entry 310123
   A - PROMETHEUS, TIED ON POST, HERAKLES SHOOTING ARROWS, EAGLE, DRAPED MAN WITH STAFF (8.59)

3. Beazley Archive Pottery Database entry 217555
   A - DIONYSOS OR PROMETHEUS WITH TORCH AND SCEPTRE, SATYRS WITH TORCHES AND THYRSOS (8.59)

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