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O. Raggio, “The Myth of Prometheus: its survival and metamorphoses up to the eighteenth century,” JWCI 21 (1958) 44 – 62. —— “The old Titan has per-sistently appealed to the imagination of artists and poets, especially since Goethe, and after him the great Romantics, Byron, Shelley, Longfellow, Nietzsche, saw in [Prometheus] the embodiment of their ideals of freedom and rebellion.”

Richard Corliss, “Prometheus: Alien Minus One”, Time 5 June 2012. Doesn’t like it, coins the term “pre-make”. “In space, noone can see you yawn.”

Classicists should be on the lookout for what the Variety reviewer calls “a warped Greco-Roman accent to the richly imagined visuals, particularly when the characters get a look at the malign beings in whose image they were created.” (Justin Chang, Variety 30 May 2012)