Pormetheus: A History of the Myth, from Its Oriental Origins to Its Modern Incarnations.

In the work we are presenting, we have above all sought to retrace the long history of a myth and a character.
We are indeed fortunate to have chronologically extensive documentation over an exceptional period. The Greek Prometheus is mysterious in many ways: he was already so in Hesiod and Aeschylus, whose works nevertheless hinted at, arousing our curiosity, a whole prehistory unknown to us. We could long have followed the fallen god and his legend, through the centuries, up to our time, in the numerous avatars provided to him by the consciousness and literature of men, and even the figurative arts. But we have, in our research, encountered more, and this would like to be our personal contribution: thanks to the recent discoveries of texts predating the Greek world and from which its poets drew inspiration, we have been able to try to reconstruct – partially – the prehistory of Prometheus, under another name, going back to Sumero-Babylonian times.
Jacqueline Duchemin (1972)