Question

This figure proclaims “No one is truly free except for Zeus” while ridiculing a fellow god’s reluctance to bind Prometheus in an Aeschylean tragedy’s opening scene. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this personification of strength and child of the Styx who enforces Zeus’s will alongside his siblings Bia, Zelus, and Nike.
ANSWER: Kratos [or Cratus; accept Potestas]
[10e] In Prometheus Bound, Kratos reinforces the idea that the titan is being punished for stealing this “special gift” and giving it to man.
ANSWER: fire [accept synonyms; or pyr]
[10m] Kratos’s hair survives on a battered vase fragment depicting the construction of the fiery wheel meant to torment this king, who had sex with a cloud shaped like Hera and fathered the progenitor of the Centaurs.
ANSWER: Ixion
<Kevin Thomas, RMP - Greco-Roman Mythology&gt; ~23531~ &lt;Editor: Kevin Thomas>

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