Explore Prometheus through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like titan. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Prometheus in a sentence
Prometheus meaning
- A male given name from Ancient Greek.
- The Titan chiefly honored for stealing fire from Zeus in the stalk of a fennel plant and giving it to mortals for their use. The god of fire and craft.
- A moon of the planet Saturn.
Synonyms of Prometheus
Using Prometheus
- The main meaning on this page is: A male given name from Ancient Greek. | The Titan chiefly honored for stealing fire from Zeus in the stalk of a fennel plant and giving it to mortals for their use. The god of fire and craft. | A moon of the planet Saturn.
- Useful related words include: titan.
- In the example corpus, prometheus often appears in combinations such as: of prometheus, the prometheus, prometheus and.
Context around Prometheus
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 8 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Prometheus
- In this selection, "prometheus" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, play, aeschylus, tortured, bound, myth and trust stand out and add context to how "prometheus" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include holdings in prometheus biosciences by and taylor the prometheus trust frome. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "prometheus" sits close to words such as abusers, aegean and agatha, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with prometheus
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: Prometheus Bound, Seven Against Thebes, and The Persians. (13 words)
Back in January 2022, Prometheus gave small energy firm ) high odds of a big breakout. (15 words)
LPL Financial LLC grew its holdings in Prometheus Biosciences by 8.9% in the fourth quarter. (16 words)
Rescue of Prometheus Hesiod 's Theogony and Aeschylus ' Prometheus Unbound both tell that Heracles shot and killed the eagle that tortured Prometheus (which was his punishment by Zeus for stealing fire from the gods and giving it to mortals). (39 words)
A 2012 three-part essay on the science fiction film titled Prometheus identified the eight key themes in understanding the film, with only “Parental Issues” appearing to have a solid connection to the myth of Prometheus. (36 words)
Luckily for us, adoption of time-series storage in monitoring tools like Prometheus make it relatively easy to merge application, infrastructure, and platform telemetry stores, using tools like Azure Monitor to query across data and logs. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
It is apparently not until Prometheus reveals this secret of Zeus's potential downfall that the two reconcile in the final play, Prometheus the Fire-Bringer or Prometheus Pyrphoros, a lost tragedy by Aeschylus.
Rescue of Prometheus Hesiod 's Theogony and Aeschylus ' Prometheus Unbound both tell that Heracles shot and killed the eagle that tortured Prometheus (which was his punishment by Zeus for stealing fire from the gods and giving it to mortals).
After Prometheus destroyed Star City, including Roy Harper’s daughter, he ended Prometheus’s life and hid it from his then wife Black Canary, ending their marriage.
A 2012 three-part essay on the science fiction film titled Prometheus identified the eight key themes in understanding the film, with only “Parental Issues” appearing to have a solid connection to the myth of Prometheus.
Dougherty, Prometheus, p. 46. Writing in the 2nd century AD, the satirist Lucian points out that while temples to the major Olympians were everywhere, none to Prometheus is to be seen.
Epimetheus (the brother of Prometheus) is overwhelmed by her beauty, disregards Prometheus' warnings about her, and marries her.
Lucian, Prometheus 14. Heracles freeing Prometheus, relief from the Temple of Aphrodite at Aphrodisias Athens was the exception.
Prometheus: Archetypal Image of Human Existence, Bollingen Foundation, Random House, Inc., p. 11. As Kerenyi states, "Goethe's Prometheus had Zeus for father and a goddess for mother.
Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: Prometheus Bound, Seven Against Thebes, and The Persians.
Prometheus Bound main In addition to these six works, a seventh tragedy, Prometheus Bound, is attributed to Aeschylus by ancient authorities.
The poem offers direct biblical connotations for the Prometheus myth which was unseen in any of the ancient Greek poets dealing with the Prometheus myth in either drama, tragedy, or philosophy.
The story was slightly altered and the title changed to King Kong vs. Prometheus, returning the name to the original Frankenstein concept (The Modern Prometheus was the alternate name of Frankenstein in the original novel).
Thomas Taylor, The Prometheus Trust, Frome, 1996); Porphyry’s analysis of the Homeric Cave of the Nymphs is another important work in this area (Select Works of Porphyry, Thomas Taylor The Prometheus Trust, Frome, 1994).
Adrian Chase is the true identity of Vigilante in both comics and fans, Segarra's Prometheus was named Adrian Chase instead.
At the same time, in a play-within-a-play, the young Titan Prometheus and his siblings plot an assault against Zeus at his annual sacrificial Blood-Bash, unbeknownst to the rest of the Olympians.
Back in January 2022, Prometheus gave small energy firm ) high odds of a big breakout.
Finally, Values First Advisors Inc. grew its holdings in Prometheus Biosciences by 8.6% in the third quarter.
In Atlanta, Prometheus by Dr. Malik, a fillers clinic, has been fielding requests from private equity investors.
LPL Financial LLC grew its holdings in Prometheus Biosciences by 8.9% in the fourth quarter.
Luckily for us, adoption of time-series storage in monitoring tools like Prometheus make it relatively easy to merge application, infrastructure, and platform telemetry stores, using tools like Azure Monitor to query across data and logs.
Common combinations with prometheus
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of prometheus 20×
- the prometheus 14×
- prometheus and 11×
- prometheus myth 8×
- prometheus books 8×
- prometheus bound 7×
- prometheus was 7×
- modern prometheus 6×
- in prometheus 6×
- prometheus the 5×