Prometheus Persuasive Speech

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Long ago, there was only fire on Mount Olympus. A god named Prometheus pitied the humans because they were always cold, he stole fire from the gods and gave it to the humans. Zeus got mad when he found out, he punished Prometheus by chaining him to a rock and having vultures peck at him each day. But Zeus wanted to punish the humans too so he sent Hermes to give two gift to Prometheus’s human brother, Epimetheus. One was a maiden and the other was a jar, he was told not to open the jar. Epimetheus married Pandora, the maiden, and one day Epimetheus was away, Pandora, who was curious about the jar, opened it and all the evil things in there flew out a polluted the world. After all these things escaped Pandora looked in the jar and found Hope.

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