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Προμηθέα (Promethea)

Προμηθέα is an Ancient Greek form of Προμηθεύς, meaning “Prometheus — Prometheus, Titan who gave fire to humans”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat 6·3: … παλλάττειν. εἱμαρμένον γὰρ τῶν κακῶν βουλευμάτων κακὰς ἀμοιβάς ἐστι καρποῦσθαι βροτοῖς. καὶ μὴν ὁ Ἡσίοδος τὸν Προμηθέα ποιῶν τῷ Ἐπιμηθεῖ παρακελευόμενον μή ποτε δῶρα δέξασθαι πὰρ Ζηνὸς Ὀλυμπίου ἀλλʼ ἀποπέμπειν ἐπὶ τῇ τῆς τύχης δ …

All forms of Προμηθεύς (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.