“A man contains all that is needed to make up a tree; likewise, a tree contains all that is needed to make up a man. Thus, finally, all things meet in all things, but we need a Prometheus to distill it.”
“Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.”
“Mike is our Prometheus — but that's all. Mike keeps emphazing this. Thou art God, I am God, he is God — all that groks. Mike is a man like the rest of us. A superior man admittedly — a lesser man taught the things the Martians know, might have set himself up as a pipsqueak god. Mike is above that temptation. Prometheus… but that is all.”
“Man is the animal who weeps and laughs — and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back — in a book.”
“As technology became more important, the Trickster underwent a shift in character and became the god of crafts — of technology, if you will — while retaining the underlying roguish qualities. So we have the Sumerian Enki, the Greek Prometheus and Hermes, Norse Loki, and so on.”
“The current rampages of territorial-emotional pugnacity sweeping this planet are not just another civilization failing … They are the birth-pangs of a cosmic Prometheus rising out of the long nightmare of domesticated primate history.”
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Prometheus es una ópera de Carl Orff. El texto griego de la ópera está basado en el drama de Esquilo, la única parte sobreviviente de su trilogía de Prometeo. Dado que el texto de Esquilo en griego antiguo ha sido musicado directamente sin alteraciones ni cortes, la partitura de Orff califica como uno de los ejemplos más típicos del género operístico de Literaturoper. El estreno tuvo lugar el 24 de marzo de 1968, en el Staatstheater Stuttgart bajo la dirección de Ferdinand Leitner en una producción de Rudolf Sellner con escenografía y vestuario de Teo Otto.
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