Read The Myth of Prometheus in the following link and answer the questions below in the "comments" section: http://web.archive.org/web/20071018065319/www.geocities.com/Athens/6969/myth.htm
Questions:
1. What knowledge was forbidden to man by Zeus? Why?
2. What might have motivated Prometheus to defy Zeus?
3. What was Promethus's punishment? What does it symbolize?