Nikon Corporation is pleased to announce the release of the Nikon D800 FX-format digital SLR camera. Nikon Imaging Corp announced the much awaited Nikon D800, the newest in the line of full frame offerings from Nikon.
Feature List
Nikon FX-format CMOS sensor with 36.3 effective Megapixels
Native ISO 100 to ISO 6,400
Manipulate light to your advantage
Shoot broadcast quality video
Comprehensive high-fidelity audio recording control
Live view output on external monitors
Integrated image sensor cleaning system
EXPEED 3 image-processing engine
Advanced Scene Recognition System
Time-lapse photography
Advanced Multi-CAM 3500FX autofocus sensor module
Versatile AF-area modes
High-precision, high-durability shutter
High dynamic range (HDR)
Don’t miss a moment
3.2 inch, 921k-dot LCD monitor
Lightweight yet durable construction
High-speed CF and SD dual card slots
Advanced Multi-CAM 3500FX autofocus sensor module
Accurate AF detection is crucial for extremely high-resolution still images in every situation. The 51 sensor points in the Nikon D800’s AF sensor module work down to -2 EV (ISO 100, 20°C/68°F), the approximate physical limit of human visibility through an optical viewfinder. For even more powerful detection, you can rely on the camera’s 15 cross type sensors in the centre to detect both vertical and horizontal lines when using any AF NIKKOR lenses of f/5.6 or faster. What’s more, AF can be activated with eleven focus points in the centre with open aperture of f/8, which is a big plus when you combine a telephoto lens with a 2.0x teleconverter to shoot distant subjects.
High-precision, high-durability shutter
The Nikon D800’s shutter unit has been tested to well over 200,000 cycles of release to prove durability and precision. While the shutter unit is designed to run at a speed range of 1/8,000 to 30s, its intelligent self-diagnostic shutter monitor automatically monitors actual shutter speeds in order to correct possible variances that can occur over time.
High dynamic range (HDR)
The Nikon D800 can shoot two frames in a single shutter release, but at different exposures: one overexposed and one underexposed. The camera then instantly combines them to create an image covering a wider dynamic range. The range can be widened by up to 3 EV for different looks, all full of saturation and tonal gradation, while the smoothness of the edge where the two exposures meet can be adjusted for a more natural appearance.
The piece is pretty, but these test films generally don't tell us very much about the performance of the camera. They are too controlled (check out the behind the scenes footage to the left) and produced with the sole intention of making things look as lush and juicy as possible. Nikon has so far failed to produce a DSLR that videographers covet as much as Canon's 5D Mark II. It'll still be some time until we see how the D800 measures up to further scrutiny.
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Samsung Galaxy Note For Apple users
Samsung's Galaxy Note is a larger-than-a-phone, smaller-than-a-tablet mobile device that sports a 5.3-inch, 1280x800 pixel screen, a 1.5 GHz dual core processor, 16 GB of internal memory, an SD card reader and 4G connectivity.
Setting itself apart from Apple's handset and tablet offerings, the Note utilizes a stylus as a main form of input, supplementing the finger-based scheme made popular by the original iPhone. In today's commercial, the capacitive "pen" is quite heavily referenced and is a throwback to when touch resistive screen technology ruled the PDA market.
Samsung continued its ad campaign against Apple on Sunday, showing off its Galaxy Note in while poking fun at Apple fans. The Samsung Galaxy Note is a very large smartphone, or a very small tablet, and may have trouble capturing attention in either market.
Samsung pitched another ad against its primary competitor on Sunday, showing off its Galaxy Note in a Super Bowl commercial that poked fun at Apple fans.
Returning to the setting of its Galaxy S II commercial, the ad showed a Samsung user blissfully using his new phone in front of a line of hipster-looking folks outside a suspiciously familiar white and blond-wood storefront. From there, the commercial unfolds as only a Super Bowl commercial can, working itself into a spectacle complete with a human cannonball and a soundtrack from the British glam-rock band The Darkness.
Setting itself apart from Apple's handset and tablet offerings, the Note utilizes a stylus as a main form of input, supplementing the finger-based scheme made popular by the original iPhone. In today's commercial, the capacitive "pen" is quite heavily referenced and is a throwback to when touch resistive screen technology ruled the PDA market.
Samsung continued its ad campaign against Apple on Sunday, showing off its Galaxy Note in while poking fun at Apple fans. The Samsung Galaxy Note is a very large smartphone, or a very small tablet, and may have trouble capturing attention in either market.
Samsung pitched another ad against its primary competitor on Sunday, showing off its Galaxy Note in a Super Bowl commercial that poked fun at Apple fans.
Returning to the setting of its Galaxy S II commercial, the ad showed a Samsung user blissfully using his new phone in front of a line of hipster-looking folks outside a suspiciously familiar white and blond-wood storefront. From there, the commercial unfolds as only a Super Bowl commercial can, working itself into a spectacle complete with a human cannonball and a soundtrack from the British glam-rock band The Darkness.
Google Search Engine Bussiness Marketing
Google is always a hot cake for many small online business owners who are daily competing for relevance in the cyber universe. If you own a small business online, your greatest desire will be to get the business listed on the Google's first page. This can easily help web surfers to visit your business site and eventually buy whatever products or services you're offering. Today, there are countless numbers of websites for small business all over the net. Not all of them are actually being seen on Google's first page. There's a unique process your business website has to go through in order to be listed in Google's first page. http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
Google's first place, you have to follow due process. You need to make sure your website has the right keywords which can easily be indentified and indexed by Google. In most cases, Google analyzes each website technically in order to identify the right phrases and keywords that will showcase when a search is conducted. This process is very vital. A good SEO expert will carefully perform a keyword search in order to locate the right keywords that will deliver the best targeted traffic to your website when it's listed on Google. This is the only way through which your website will be located when a search is performed online.
Google Search Engine Now
Google's first place, you have to follow due process. You need to make sure your website has the right keywords which can easily be indentified and indexed by Google. In most cases, Google analyzes each website technically in order to identify the right phrases and keywords that will showcase when a search is conducted. This process is very vital. A good SEO expert will carefully perform a keyword search in order to locate the right keywords that will deliver the best targeted traffic to your website when it's listed on Google. This is the only way through which your website will be located when a search is performed online.
Google Search Engine Now
System Check Virus Guide
System Check Virus manual removal guide:
Delete System Check files: (Learn ho to remove System Check virus files here. )
%CommonAppData%\[random]
%CommonAppData%\[random].exe
%DesktopDir%\System Check.lnk
%Programs%\System Check\System Check.lnk
%Programs%\System Check\Uninstall System Check.lnk
Delete System Check registry entries: (Learn how to remove System Check malware registry entries here.)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings
Delete System Check files: (Learn ho to remove System Check virus files here. )
%CommonAppData%\[random]
%CommonAppData%\[random].exe
%DesktopDir%\System Check.lnk
%Programs%\System Check\System Check.lnk
%Programs%\System Check\Uninstall System Check.lnk
Delete System Check registry entries: (Learn how to remove System Check malware registry entries here.)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings
TurboTax 2012 Software
TurboTax for iPad, most popular income tax preparation software packages. This latest TurboTax v1.0 (Released on Jan 16, 2012), optimized for your iPad, so you can tap, drag, and flick your way to your tax refund in your iPad. Compatible with iPad with iOS 4.3 or later.
TurboTax for iPad is better suited for individuals and families filing more complex tax returns compared another mobile version. You can try for TurboTax for http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifiPad for FREE and pay when you’re done with prices start at $29.99. With TurboTax you can walks you through your taxes, anytime anywhere and double-checks for every credit and deduction you deserve.
New TurboTax for iPad v.1.0 Key Features:
There also TurboTax for iPhone and Android called SnapTax lets you take a photo of your W-2, transfer all of the information into the apps tax return form, and quickly e-file.
TurboTax Download Now
TurboTax for iPad is better suited for individuals and families filing more complex tax returns compared another mobile version. You can try for TurboTax for http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifiPad for FREE and pay when you’re done with prices start at $29.99. With TurboTax you can walks you through your taxes, anytime anywhere and double-checks for every credit and deduction you deserve.
New TurboTax for iPad v.1.0 Key Features:
There also TurboTax for iPhone and Android called SnapTax lets you take a photo of your W-2, transfer all of the information into the apps tax return form, and quickly e-file.
TurboTax Download Now
NY Ink Video
Thursday night on "NY Ink" (Thu., 9 p.m. EST on TLC), "Megan Massacre" told the crew at Ami Jame's tattoo shop a secret about herself that she's been hiding for years. After finding out that Tila Tequila had booked an appointment to come into the shop, the team jumped online to find out more about her. James had some vague idea about her reality show "where she dated men, women, everything in between."
Online they found a lot of her modeling pictures, including the nude work she's done. This prompted Jessica to say, "I don't think people should do that ever."
Megan could have kept quiet at this point, but she didn't. "I've posed nude before," she revealed. "It's part of modeling."
The guys were already on the computer, so what did she think was going to happen. Almost immediately, her pictures started filling the screen. "Stop looking at me naked!" she shouted, but it was too late. And it's not something she's likely to live down any time soon.
"NY Ink" airs every Thursday night at 9 p.m. EST on TLC.
TV Replay scours the vast television landscape to find the most interesting, amusing, and, on a good day, amazing moments, and delivers them right to your browser.
Online they found a lot of her modeling pictures, including the nude work she's done. This prompted Jessica to say, "I don't think people should do that ever."
Megan could have kept quiet at this point, but she didn't. "I've posed nude before," she revealed. "It's part of modeling."
The guys were already on the computer, so what did she think was going to happen. Almost immediately, her pictures started filling the screen. "Stop looking at me naked!" she shouted, but it was too late. And it's not something she's likely to live down any time soon.
"NY Ink" airs every Thursday night at 9 p.m. EST on TLC.
TV Replay scours the vast television landscape to find the most interesting, amusing, and, on a good day, amazing moments, and delivers them right to your browser.
ADO Failed to Load Report
Please I'm in very bad state because I have a very limited time to finish my application and tomorrow I have to take it to its owners.
It's well completed I just a have a problem in the connection string of the crystalreports because I made them by assistant I wrote the path of the file access and when I change the computer I'm sure I'll face problems ["Failed to load repport"] So please how shall I proceed ? How to set the connection path which is the path f the file Access or a way to get out of that problem who has occupied my mind during a week of research.
Please I'll keep waiting in front of the coputer untill I get the solution If you help me! And thank you very much in advance.
Standard practice is to put connection strings into your configuration file. The string can then be changed when it is deployed. If you followed that practice then you can simply edit your configuration file. If, instead, you hard coded the connection string (rather than the name of the connection string in the config file) throughout your application then you cannot change it without recompilation. If you have time then you can fix all this up to load the connection string from the config using ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["name"] where "name" is the name of the connection that is stored in the config file.
It's well completed I just a have a problem in the connection string of the crystalreports because I made them by assistant I wrote the path of the file access and when I change the computer I'm sure I'll face problems ["Failed to load repport"] So please how shall I proceed ? How to set the connection path which is the path f the file Access or a way to get out of that problem who has occupied my mind during a week of research.
Please I'll keep waiting in front of the coputer untill I get the solution If you help me! And thank you very much in advance.
Standard practice is to put connection strings into your configuration file. The string can then be changed when it is deployed. If you followed that practice then you can simply edit your configuration file. If, instead, you hard coded the connection string (rather than the name of the connection string in the config file) throughout your application then you cannot change it without recompilation. If you have time then you can fix all this up to load the connection string from the config using ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["name"] where "name" is the name of the connection that is stored in the config file.
Glary Utilities To Protect Privacy
I never seen in some optimization software is empty folder finder, which scans your computer and looks for empty folders and gives you the option of those empty folder (deleted 232 empty folders through my first run). I usually recommend people to get deleting advance system optimizer because of all the tools you could use, I even used PC surgeon which was pretty good as well for a freeware software. But when it came to registry cleaning Glary Utilities found over 700 errors within my registry alone, usually I never got that many. Like I said only if I saw this about 22 hours earlier, those who run old PC could use this software and maybe speed it up.
This powerful application offers extensive utilities to improve your system's performance and protect your privacy.
This powerful application offers extensive utilities to improve your system's performance and protect your privacy.
iPay Payment Processing
With this agreement, iPay is making its biller connections available to bill payment originators who use MasterCard's RPPS electronic bill payment processing services. Aaccording to iPay, this will allow originators to eliminate a significant volume of checks that they currently mail to those billers and replace them with electronic payments.
The processing relationship between iPay and RPPS will enable more than 1,500 local and regional billers in verticals spanning utilities, consumer lending, telecommunications and municipalities to now receive consumer bill payments electronically through the MasterCard RPPS network, according to iPay.
The processing relationship between iPay and RPPS will enable more than 1,500 local and regional billers in verticals spanning utilities, consumer lending, telecommunications and municipalities to now receive consumer bill payments electronically through the MasterCard RPPS network, according to iPay.
New Prometheus Movie
PROMETHEUS was the Titan god of forethought and crafty counsel who was entrusted with the task of moulding mankind out of clay. His attempts to better the lives of his creation brought him into direct conflict with Zeus. Firstly he tricked the gods out of the best portion of the sacrificial feast, acquiring the meat for the feasting of man. Then, when Zeus withheld fire, he stole it from heaven and delivered it to mortal kind hidden inside a fennel-stalk. As punishment for these rebellious acts, Zeus ordered the creation of Pandora (the first woman) as a means to deliver misfortune into the house of man, or as a way to cheat mankind of the company of the good spirits. Prometheus meanwhile, was arrested and bound to a stake on Mount Kaukasos where an eagle was set to feed upon his ever-regenerating liver (or, some say, heart). Generations later the great hero Herakles came along and released the old Titan from his torture.
PROMETHEUS (Promêtheus), is sometimes called a Titan, though in reality he did not belong to the Titans, but was only a son of the Titan Iapetus (whence he is designated by the patronymic Iapetionidês, Hes. Theog. 528; Apollon Rhod. iii. 1087), by Clymene, so that he was a brother of Atlas, Menoetius, and Epimetheus (Hes. Theog. 507). His name signifies "forethought," as that of his brother Epimetheus denotes "afterthought." Others call Prometheus a son of Themis (Aeschyl. Prom. 18), or of Uranus and Clymene, or of the Titan Eurymedon and Hera (Potter, Comment. ad Lyc. Cass. 1283; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 987). By Pandora, Hesione, or Axiothea, he is said to have been the father of Deucalion (Aesch. Prom. 560 ; Tzetz. ad Lyc. 1283; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. ii. 1086), by Pyrrha or Clymene he begot Hellen (and according to some also Deucalion; Schol. ad Apollon. l. c.; Schol. ad Pind. Ol. ix. 68), and by Celaeno he was the father of Lycus and Chimareus (Tzetz. ad. Lyc. 132, 219), while Herodotus (iv. 45) calls his wife Asia.
The following is an outline of the legends related of him by the ancients. Once in the reign of Zeus, when gods and men were disputing with one another at Mecone (afterwards Sicyon, Schol. ad Pind. Nem. ix. 123), Prometheus, with a view to deceive Zeus and rival him in prudence, cut up a bull and divided it into two parts : he wrapped up the best parts and the intestines in the skin, and at the top he placed the stomach, which is one of the worst parts, while the second heap consisted of the bones covered with fat. When Zeus pointed out to him how badly he had made the division, Prometheus desired him to choose, but Zeus, in his anger, and seeing through the stratagem of Prometheus, chose the heap of bones covered with the fat. The father of the gods avenged himself by withholding fire from mortals, but Prometheus stole it in a hollow tube (ferula, narthêx, Aeschyl. Prom. 110). Zeus now, in order to punish men, caused Hephaestus to mould a virgin, Pandora, of earth, whom Athena adorned with all the charms calculated to entice mortals; Prometheus himself was put in chains, and fastened to a pillar, where an eagle sent by Zeus consumed in the daytime his liver, which, in every succeeding night, was restored again. Prometheus was thus exposed to perpetual torture, but Heracles killed the eagle and delivered the sufferer, with the consent of Zeus, who thus had an opportunity of allowing his son to gain immortal fame (Hes. Theog. 521, &c., Op. et Dies, 47, &c. ; Hygin. Poet. Astr. ii. 15; Apollod. ii. 5. § 11). Prometheus had cautioned his brother Epimetheus against accepting any present from Zeus, but Epimetheus, disregarding the advice, accepted Pandora, who was sent to him by Zeus, through the mediation of Hermes. Pandora then lifted the lid of the vessel in which the foresight of Prometheus had concealed all the evils which might torment mortals in life. Diseases and sufferings of every kind now issued forth, but deceitful hope alone remained behind (Hes. Op. et Dies, 83, &c.; comp. Horat. Carm. i. 3. 25, &c.). This is an outline of the legend about Prometheus, as contained in the poems of Hesiod.
Aeschylus, in his trilogy Prometheus, added various new features to it, for, according to him, Prometheus himself is an immortal god, the friend of the human race, the giver of fire, the inventor of the useful arts, an omniscient seer, an heroic sufferer, who is overcome by the superior power of Zeus, but will not bend his inflexible mind. Although he himself belonged to the Titans, he is nevertheless represented as having assisted Zeus against the Titans (Prom. 218), and he is further said to have opened the head of Zeus when the latter gave birth to Athena (Apollod. i. 3. § 6). But when Zeus succeeded to the kingdom of heaven, and wanted to extirpate the whole race of man, the place of which he proposed to give to quite a new race of beings, Prometheus prevented the execution of the scheme, and saved the human race from destruction (Prom. 228, 233). He deprived them of their knowledge of the future, and gave them hope instead (248, &c.). He further taught them the use of fire, made them acquainted with architecture, astronomy, mathematics, the art of writing, the treatment of domestic animals, navigation, medicine, the art of prophecy, working in metal, and all the other arts (252, 445, &c., 480, &c.). But, as in all these things he had acted contrary to the will of Zeus, the latter ordered Hephaestus to chain him to a rock in Scythia, which was done in the presence of Cratos and Bia, two ministers of Zeus. In Scythia he was visited by the Oceanides; Io also came to him, and he foretold her the wanderings and sufferings which were yet in store for her, as well as her final relief (703, &c.). Hermes then likewise appears, and desires him to make known a prophecy which was of great importance to Zeus, for Prometheus knew that by a certain woman Zeus would beget a son, who was to dethrone his father, and Zeus wanted to have a more accurate knowledge of this decree of fate. But Prometheus steadfastly refused to reveal the decree of fate, whereupon Zeus, by a thunderbolt, sent Prometheus, together with the rock to which he was chained, into Tartarus (Horat. Carm. ii. 18, 35). After the lapse of a long time, Prometheus returned to the upper world, to endure a fresh course of suffering, for he was now fastened to mount Caucasus, and tormented by an eagle, which every day, or every third day, devoured his liver, which was restored again in the night (Apollon. Rhod. ii. 1247, &c. iii. 853; Strab. xv. p. 688 ; Philostr. Vit. Apoll. ii. 3; Hygin. Poet. Astr. ii. 15; Aeschyl. Prom. 1015, &c.). This state of suffering was to last until some other god, of his own accord, should take his place, and descend into Tartarus for him (Prom. 1025). This came to pass when Cheiron, who had been incurably wounded by an arrow of Heracles, desired to go into Hades; and Zeus allowed him to supply the place of Prometheus (Apollod. ii. 5. § 4; comp. Cheiron). According to others, however, Zeus himself delivered Prometheus, when at length the Titan was prevailed upon to reveal to Zeus the decree of fate, that, if he should become by Thetis the either of a son, that son should deprive him of the sovereignty. (Serv. ad Virg. Eclog. vi. 42 ; Apollod. iii. 13. § 5; Hygin. Fab. 54; comp. Aeschyl. Prom. 167, &c. 376.)
There was also an account, stating that Prometheus had created men out of earth and water, at the very beginning of the human race, or after the flood of Deucalion, when Zeus is said to have ordered him and Athena to make men out of the mud, and the winds to breathe life into them (Apollod. i. 7. § 1; Ov. Met. i. 81; Etym. Mag. s. v. Promêtheus). Prometheus is said to have given to men something of all the qualities possessed by the other animals (Horat Carm. i. 16. 13). The kind of earth out of which Prometheus formed men was shown in later times near Panopeus in Phocis (Paus. x. 4. § 3), and it was at his suggestion that Deucalion, when the flood approached, built a ship, and carried into it provisions, that he and Pyrrha might be able to support themselves during the calamity (Apollod. i. 7. § 2). Prometheus, in the legend, often appears in connection with Athena, e. g., he is said to have been punished on mount Caucasus for the criminal love he entertained for her (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. ii. 1249) and he is further said, with her assistance, to have ascended into heaven, and there secretly to have lighted his torch at the chariot of Helios, in order to bring down the fire to man (Serv. ad Virg. Eclog. vi. 42). At Athens Prometheus had a sanctuary in the Academy, from whence a torch-race took place in honour of him (Paus. i. 30. § 2; Schol. ad Soph. Oed. Col. 55; Harpocrat. s. v. lampas).
PROMETHEUS (Promêtheus), is sometimes called a Titan, though in reality he did not belong to the Titans, but was only a son of the Titan Iapetus (whence he is designated by the patronymic Iapetionidês, Hes. Theog. 528; Apollon Rhod. iii. 1087), by Clymene, so that he was a brother of Atlas, Menoetius, and Epimetheus (Hes. Theog. 507). His name signifies "forethought," as that of his brother Epimetheus denotes "afterthought." Others call Prometheus a son of Themis (Aeschyl. Prom. 18), or of Uranus and Clymene, or of the Titan Eurymedon and Hera (Potter, Comment. ad Lyc. Cass. 1283; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 987). By Pandora, Hesione, or Axiothea, he is said to have been the father of Deucalion (Aesch. Prom. 560 ; Tzetz. ad Lyc. 1283; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. ii. 1086), by Pyrrha or Clymene he begot Hellen (and according to some also Deucalion; Schol. ad Apollon. l. c.; Schol. ad Pind. Ol. ix. 68), and by Celaeno he was the father of Lycus and Chimareus (Tzetz. ad. Lyc. 132, 219), while Herodotus (iv. 45) calls his wife Asia.
The following is an outline of the legends related of him by the ancients. Once in the reign of Zeus, when gods and men were disputing with one another at Mecone (afterwards Sicyon, Schol. ad Pind. Nem. ix. 123), Prometheus, with a view to deceive Zeus and rival him in prudence, cut up a bull and divided it into two parts : he wrapped up the best parts and the intestines in the skin, and at the top he placed the stomach, which is one of the worst parts, while the second heap consisted of the bones covered with fat. When Zeus pointed out to him how badly he had made the division, Prometheus desired him to choose, but Zeus, in his anger, and seeing through the stratagem of Prometheus, chose the heap of bones covered with the fat. The father of the gods avenged himself by withholding fire from mortals, but Prometheus stole it in a hollow tube (ferula, narthêx, Aeschyl. Prom. 110). Zeus now, in order to punish men, caused Hephaestus to mould a virgin, Pandora, of earth, whom Athena adorned with all the charms calculated to entice mortals; Prometheus himself was put in chains, and fastened to a pillar, where an eagle sent by Zeus consumed in the daytime his liver, which, in every succeeding night, was restored again. Prometheus was thus exposed to perpetual torture, but Heracles killed the eagle and delivered the sufferer, with the consent of Zeus, who thus had an opportunity of allowing his son to gain immortal fame (Hes. Theog. 521, &c., Op. et Dies, 47, &c. ; Hygin. Poet. Astr. ii. 15; Apollod. ii. 5. § 11). Prometheus had cautioned his brother Epimetheus against accepting any present from Zeus, but Epimetheus, disregarding the advice, accepted Pandora, who was sent to him by Zeus, through the mediation of Hermes. Pandora then lifted the lid of the vessel in which the foresight of Prometheus had concealed all the evils which might torment mortals in life. Diseases and sufferings of every kind now issued forth, but deceitful hope alone remained behind (Hes. Op. et Dies, 83, &c.; comp. Horat. Carm. i. 3. 25, &c.). This is an outline of the legend about Prometheus, as contained in the poems of Hesiod.
Aeschylus, in his trilogy Prometheus, added various new features to it, for, according to him, Prometheus himself is an immortal god, the friend of the human race, the giver of fire, the inventor of the useful arts, an omniscient seer, an heroic sufferer, who is overcome by the superior power of Zeus, but will not bend his inflexible mind. Although he himself belonged to the Titans, he is nevertheless represented as having assisted Zeus against the Titans (Prom. 218), and he is further said to have opened the head of Zeus when the latter gave birth to Athena (Apollod. i. 3. § 6). But when Zeus succeeded to the kingdom of heaven, and wanted to extirpate the whole race of man, the place of which he proposed to give to quite a new race of beings, Prometheus prevented the execution of the scheme, and saved the human race from destruction (Prom. 228, 233). He deprived them of their knowledge of the future, and gave them hope instead (248, &c.). He further taught them the use of fire, made them acquainted with architecture, astronomy, mathematics, the art of writing, the treatment of domestic animals, navigation, medicine, the art of prophecy, working in metal, and all the other arts (252, 445, &c., 480, &c.). But, as in all these things he had acted contrary to the will of Zeus, the latter ordered Hephaestus to chain him to a rock in Scythia, which was done in the presence of Cratos and Bia, two ministers of Zeus. In Scythia he was visited by the Oceanides; Io also came to him, and he foretold her the wanderings and sufferings which were yet in store for her, as well as her final relief (703, &c.). Hermes then likewise appears, and desires him to make known a prophecy which was of great importance to Zeus, for Prometheus knew that by a certain woman Zeus would beget a son, who was to dethrone his father, and Zeus wanted to have a more accurate knowledge of this decree of fate. But Prometheus steadfastly refused to reveal the decree of fate, whereupon Zeus, by a thunderbolt, sent Prometheus, together with the rock to which he was chained, into Tartarus (Horat. Carm. ii. 18, 35). After the lapse of a long time, Prometheus returned to the upper world, to endure a fresh course of suffering, for he was now fastened to mount Caucasus, and tormented by an eagle, which every day, or every third day, devoured his liver, which was restored again in the night (Apollon. Rhod. ii. 1247, &c. iii. 853; Strab. xv. p. 688 ; Philostr. Vit. Apoll. ii. 3; Hygin. Poet. Astr. ii. 15; Aeschyl. Prom. 1015, &c.). This state of suffering was to last until some other god, of his own accord, should take his place, and descend into Tartarus for him (Prom. 1025). This came to pass when Cheiron, who had been incurably wounded by an arrow of Heracles, desired to go into Hades; and Zeus allowed him to supply the place of Prometheus (Apollod. ii. 5. § 4; comp. Cheiron). According to others, however, Zeus himself delivered Prometheus, when at length the Titan was prevailed upon to reveal to Zeus the decree of fate, that, if he should become by Thetis the either of a son, that son should deprive him of the sovereignty. (Serv. ad Virg. Eclog. vi. 42 ; Apollod. iii. 13. § 5; Hygin. Fab. 54; comp. Aeschyl. Prom. 167, &c. 376.)
There was also an account, stating that Prometheus had created men out of earth and water, at the very beginning of the human race, or after the flood of Deucalion, when Zeus is said to have ordered him and Athena to make men out of the mud, and the winds to breathe life into them (Apollod. i. 7. § 1; Ov. Met. i. 81; Etym. Mag. s. v. Promêtheus). Prometheus is said to have given to men something of all the qualities possessed by the other animals (Horat Carm. i. 16. 13). The kind of earth out of which Prometheus formed men was shown in later times near Panopeus in Phocis (Paus. x. 4. § 3), and it was at his suggestion that Deucalion, when the flood approached, built a ship, and carried into it provisions, that he and Pyrrha might be able to support themselves during the calamity (Apollod. i. 7. § 2). Prometheus, in the legend, often appears in connection with Athena, e. g., he is said to have been punished on mount Caucasus for the criminal love he entertained for her (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. ii. 1249) and he is further said, with her assistance, to have ascended into heaven, and there secretly to have lighted his torch at the chariot of Helios, in order to bring down the fire to man (Serv. ad Virg. Eclog. vi. 42). At Athens Prometheus had a sanctuary in the Academy, from whence a torch-race took place in honour of him (Paus. i. 30. § 2; Schol. ad Soph. Oed. Col. 55; Harpocrat. s. v. lampas).
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