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"According to the first, he was clamped to a rock in the Caucasus for betraying the secrets of the gods to men, and the gods sent eagles to feed on his liver, which was perpetually renewed.
According to the second, Prometheus, goaded by the pain of the tearing beaks, pressed himself deeper and deeper into the rock until he became one with it.
According to the third, his treachery was forgotten in the course of thousands of years, forgotten by the gods, the eagles, forgotten by himself.
According to the fourth, everyone grew weary of the meaningless affair. The gods grew weary, the eagles grew weary, the wound closed wearily.
There remains the inexplicable mass of rock. The legend tried to explain the inexplicable. As it came out of a substratum of truth it had in turn to end in the inexplicable."
Franz Kafka

Heracles delivered him during his twelve labors, but not to derogate from the oath of Zeus who had sworn that the Titan would remain forever chained to the Caucasus, Prometheus had to wear throughout his life an iron ring from his chains, contiguous to a piece of Caucasian stone.
"According to the first, he was clamped to a rock in the Caucasus for betraying the secrets of the gods to men, and the gods sent eagles to feed on his liver, which was perpetually renewed.
According to the second, Prometheus, goaded by the pain of the tearing beaks, pressed himself deeper and deeper into the rock until he became one with it.
According to the third, his treachery was forgotten in the course of thousands of years, forgotten by the gods, the eagles, forgotten by himself.
According to the fourth, everyone grew weary of the meaningless affair. The gods grew weary, the eagles grew weary, the wound closed wearily.
There remains the inexplicable mass of rock. The legend tried to explain the inexplicable. As it came out of a substratum of truth it had in turn to end in the inexplicable."
Franz Kafka

Heracles delivered him during his twelve labors, but not to derogate from the oath of Zeus who had sworn that the Titan would remain forever chained to the Caucasus, Prometheus had to wear throughout his life an iron ring from his chains, contiguous to a piece of Caucasian stone.

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Prometheus Painting

Alexandre Barbera-Ivanoff

France

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 10.6 W x 13.8 H x 0.8 D in

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"According to the first, he was clamped to a rock in the Caucasus for betraying the secrets of the gods to men, and the gods sent eagles to feed on his liver, which was perpetually renewed. According to the second, Prometheus, goaded by the pain of the tearing beaks, pressed himself deeper and deepe...

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2018

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Born in 1973 in Paris, France, my origins are Spanish and Russian. I'm the grand-son of the painter Serge Ivanoff.

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