13-04-2016, 11:58 AM
Hmmm... weird that the Promethean ring should be remembered as a sign of love!
In the myth, Prometheus' ring was something that he made for himself after his ordeal of being chained to the rock and have his liver regularly pecked at by an eagle.
Zeus, who had finally agreed to grant him his freedom after an intervention by Hercules, nonetheless ordered him to wear a permanent reminder of his torture: he made the ring out of a link in his chain, and adorned it with a fragment of the rock he had been chained to.
I don't know where the fourth finger/heart/artery thing came out of: perhaps a distortion due to the medieval courtly love fad?
In the myth, Prometheus' ring was something that he made for himself after his ordeal of being chained to the rock and have his liver regularly pecked at by an eagle.
Zeus, who had finally agreed to grant him his freedom after an intervention by Hercules, nonetheless ordered him to wear a permanent reminder of his torture: he made the ring out of a link in his chain, and adorned it with a fragment of the rock he had been chained to.
I don't know where the fourth finger/heart/artery thing came out of: perhaps a distortion due to the medieval courtly love fad?