Epimetheus

He is a titan.

He and Epimetheus, forethought and afterthought, are the sons of Iapetus, another titan.

And you have to get this herb through a very special procedure.

As Apollonius tells us, if a man anointed his body with this herb, after first appeasing the only begotten maiden with nocturnal sacrifice, he could not be wounded by bronze weapons, nor by blazing fire.

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The Problem of Types in Poetry Carl Spittler's Prometheus and Epimetheus by Carl Gustav Jung 1875-1961 from psychological types or the psychology of individuation.

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as deeply as the thinker.

In this chapter we shall turn our attention to a poetic work which is almost exclusively based on the motif of the type problem.

I refer to Carl Spittler's Prometheus and Epimetheus, which first appeared in 1881.

I have no wish to explain at the outset that Prometheus, the forethinker, stands for the introvert.

Interestingly, depending on the source, the titan Prometheus either stayed out of the conflict entirely or allied with the gods.

And the same holds true for his brother Epimetheus.

So while the other titans were thrown by Zeus into Tartarus for eternity, the brothers Prometheus and Epimetheus kept their freedom.

You've probably heard of how Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to humans.

But that's not his entire story.

Plato, in his dialogue Protagoras, talks about what happened before the famous fire-stealing episode.

In Plato's account, after the gods created animals and humans out of clay, they gave Prometheus and Epimetheus the task of assigning qualities to this newly created life.

The brothers agreed that Epimetheus would do the actual work and Prometheus would oversee it.

The gods built a woman as a trap and gave her a name that may have once belonged to the Earth itself, and now she's ready to be delivered.

The only question is, who would be foolish enough to open the door of this kind of evil goddess? So Hermes escorts Pandora down from Olympus and brings her not to Prometheus, but to his brother Epimetheus.

If Prometheus means forethought, then you can probably take a guess what Epimetheus means, right? Like, uh, epigraph.

He's the afterthought.

He's the guy who figures things out after it's too late.

There was no backbreaking labor.

There was no disease, none of the miseries that wear a person down into old age.

And then in Epimetheus's house, there is a big jar.

She was not to open the box under any circumstance.

On Earth, Pandora met and fell in love with Epimetheus, a talented titan who had been given the task of designing the natural world by Zeus.

He had worked alongside his brother Prometheus, who created the first humans, but was eternally punished for giving them fire.

Epimetheus missed his brother desperately, but in Pandora, he found another fiery-hearted soul for companionship.

Pandora brimmed with excitement at life on Earth.

She was also easily distracted and could be impatient, given her thirst for knowledge and desire to question her surroundings.

It seemed there was a force beyond her control that drew her to the contents, which echoed her name louder and louder.

One day she could bear it no longer.

I don't think that your theory is that crazy.

I think he's maybe a son of Prometheus or Epimetheus, Prometheus's brother.

Yeah, I mean, we've been saying from the beginning that Benny seems like the child of a Titan.

So I don't feel like it's that crazy to assign him the Titan that appears to be a lead villain in this series or someone connected to him.

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But we have already seen how in Schiller this problem stirred the poet in him as deeply as the thinker.

In this chapter we shall turn our attention to a poetic work which is almost exclusively based on the motif of the type problem.

I refer to Carl Spittler's Prometheus and Epimetheus, which first appeared in 1881.

I have no wish to explain at the outset that Prometheus, the forethinker, stands for the introvert, while Epimetheus, the man of action and afterthinker, signifies the extrovert.