English Original
In the conflict between Cronus and Jupiter, Prometheus sided with the Olympian deities. He and his brother Epimetheus were tasked with creating humanity and endowing all creatures with the faculties necessary for survival.
Epimetheus generously bestowed gifts like courage, strength, and swiftness upon the animals. Prometheus, shaping man from earth and water in the image of the gods, gave him an upright stature. Finding no worthy gifts left for mankind, Prometheus ascended to heaven, lit his torch from the sun's chariot, and brought fire to humanity, though Jupiter granted it grudgingly.
Later, when gods and men disputed their prerogatives at Sicyon, Prometheus devised a trick to favor man. He divided a sacrificial bull into two portions: one contained the edible parts wrapped in skin topped with unappealing entrails; the other held bones disguised with a plausible layer of fat. He offered Jupiter the choice. The king of heaven, seeing through the deceit, chose the bones and fat. Using this as a pretext, he punished mankind by taking away fire. Prometheus, however, stole it back from heaven in a hollow tube.
As punishment, Jupiter ordered Prometheus chained to a rock on Mount Caucasus, where an eagle preyed upon his liver for ages, though it never consumed it entirely.
Prometheus endured this torment, sustained by the prophecy that a hero from Jupiter's own line would free him in the thirteenth generation. In time, the mighty Hercules arrived. Believing no greater service remained than freeing humanity's champion, Hercules spoke to the Titan:
The soul of man can never be enslaved
Save by its own infirmities, nor freed
Save by its very strength and own resolve
And constant vision and supreme endeavor!
You will be free? Then, courage, O my brother!
O let the soul stand in the open door
Of life and death and knowledge and desire
And see the peaks of thought kindle with sunrise!
Then shall the soul return to rest no more,
Nor harvest dreams in the dark field of sleep -
Rather the soul shall go with great resolve
To dwell at last upon the shining mountains
In liberal converse with the eternal stars.
Thereupon, Hercules killed the eagle and set Prometheus free.
中文翻译
在克洛诺斯与朱庇特的冲突中，普罗米修斯站在了奥林匹亚众神一边。他和他的兄弟厄庇墨透斯受命创造人类，并赋予所有生物生存所必需的能力。
厄庇墨透斯慷慨地将勇气、力量和敏捷等天赋赐予了动物。普罗米修斯用泥土和水，按照神的形象塑造了人类，并赋予其直立的体态。他发现已没有合适的礼物留给人类，便升入天堂，从太阳战车上点燃火炬，为人类带来了火种，尽管朱庇特对此十分不情愿。
后来，当众神与人类在锡锡安就各自特权发生争执时，普罗米修斯设计了一个有利于人类的计谋。他将一头献祭的公牛分成两份：一份是可食用的部分，用牛皮包裹，上面盖着令人厌恶的内脏；另一份是骨头，用一层看似合理的脂肪伪装起来。他让朱庇特选择。众神之王看穿了这个骗局，却选择了骨头和脂肪。他以此为借口，通过夺走火种来惩罚人类。然而，普罗米修斯用一根空心的管子将火种从天堂偷了回来。
作为惩罚，朱庇特下令将普罗米修斯锁在高加索山的岩石上，一只鹰长久地啄食他的肝脏，但肝脏从未被完全吃掉。
普罗米修斯忍受着这种折磨，支撑他的是一个预言：在第十三代，一位出自朱庇特血脉的英雄将会来解救他。最终，强大的赫拉克勒斯到来了。他认为，没有什么比解救人类的捍卫者更崇高的使命了。赫拉克勒斯对这位泰坦说道：
人的灵魂永远不会被奴役，
除非被自身的弱点所困；也永远不会获得自由，
除非凭借自身的力量、决心、
恒久的远见和不懈的努力！
你想要自由吗？那么，鼓起勇气，我的兄弟！
哦，让灵魂伫立在生命与死亡、
知识与欲望敞开的大门前，
看思想的峰巅被日出点燃！
那时，灵魂将不再回归安息，
也不再于睡眠的黑暗田野收获梦境——
相反，灵魂将带着巨大的决心前行，
最终栖居于闪亮的山巅，
与永恒的星辰自由交谈。
随后，赫拉克勒斯杀死了鹰，解放了普罗米修斯。