Prometheus Freed.
At the end of Aeschylus’s tragedy Prometheus Bound, the Titan disappears into the abyss, struck by Zeus’s lightning bolt. Fragments of another Aeschylean tragedy, Prometheus Unbound, suggest that Prometheus did not die but was reconciled with Zeus after thirty thousand years. According to most versions of the myth, Prometheus was released from his chains by Heracles, who shot and killed the eagle (or vulture) that tormented him; some sources say that Zeus allowed the Titan to be freed after Prometheus revealed Thetis’s secret.
       From the nineteenth century onward, some poets have imagined the death of Prometheus, a purely postclassical theme.
       Listings are arranged under the following headings:
Prometheus; Prometheus the Creator; Prometheus Bound; Prometheus Freed.