【正文】 ived a maiden named Io. She was so fair and good that all who knew her loved her, and said that there was no one like her in the whole world. When Zeus, in his home in the clouds, heard of her, he came down to Argos to see her.She pleased him so much, and was so kind and wise, that he came back the next day and the next and the next。 and oftentimes men looked up to him with pitying eyes, and cried out against the tyrant who had placed him there.5. How Prometheus Was RescuedThen, once upon a time, a white cow passed that way,——a strangely beautiful cow, with large sad eyes and a face that seemed almost human. She stopped and looked up at the cold gray peak and the giant body which was chained there. Prometheus saw her and spoke to her kindly:“I know who you are.” he said. “You are Io who was once a fair and happy maiden in distant Argos。 and every day she took it down from its shelf and felt of the lid, and tried to peer inside of it without opening it.“Why should I care for what Athena told me?” she said at last. “She is not beautiful, and jewels would be of no use to her. I think that I will look at them, at any rate. Athena will never know. Nobody else will ever know.”She opened the lid a very little, just to peep inside. All at once there was a whirring, rustling sound, and before she could shut it down again, out flew ten thousand strange creatures with deathlike faces and gaunt and dreadful forms, such as nobody in all the world had ever seen.They fluttered for a little while about the room, and then flew away to find dwellingplaces wherever there were homes of men. They were diseases and cares。 but when Epimetheus saw Pandora, how lovely and wise she was, he forgot all warnings, and took her home to live with him and be his wife.3. Pandora’s BoxPandora was very happy in her new home。 and another a kind heart。 and when he saw how happy the world was being he cried out: “A new Golden Age shall e, brighter and better by far than the old!”2. The First Woman: PandoraThings might have gone on very happily indeed, and the Golden Age might really have e again, had it not been for Zeus. But one day, when he chanced to look down upon the earth, he saw the fires burning, and the people living in houses, and the flocks feeding on the hills, and the grain ripening in the fields, and this made him very angry.“Who has done all this?” he asked.And someone answered, “Prometheus!”“What! That young Titan!” he cried. “Well, I will punish him in a way that will make him wish I had shut him up in the prisonhouse with his kinsfolk. But as for those puny men, let them keep their fire. I will make them ten times more miserable than they were before they had it.”O(jiān)f course it would be easy enough to deal with Prometheus at any time, and so Jupiter was in no great haste about it. He made up his mind to distress mankind first。 and after a while they could learn to make tools and build themselves houses. Without fire, they are worse off than the beasts.”Then he went boldly to Jupiter and begged him to give fire to men, that so they might have a little fort through the long, dreary months of winter.“Not a spark will I give.” said Jupiter. “No, indeed! Why, if men had fire they might bee strong and wise like ourselves, and after a while they would drive us out of our kingdom. Let them shiver with cold, and let them live like the beasts. It is best for them to be poor and ignorant, that so we Mighty Ones may thrive and be happy.”Prometheus made no answer。Part One: Myths of GreeceI. The Story of Prometheus 1. How Fire Was Given to MenIn those old, old times, there lived two brothers who were not like other men, nor yet like those Mighty Ones who lived upon the mountain top. They were the sons of one of those Titans who had fought against Jupiter and been sent in chains to the strong prisonhouse of the Lower World.The name of the elder of these brothers was Prometheus, or Forethought。 for his heart was filled with sadness when he found that they were no longer happy as they had been during the golden days when Saturn was king.Ah, how very poor and wretched they were! He found them living in caves and in holes of the earth, shivering with the cold because there was no fire, dying of starvation, hunted by wild beasts and by one another——the most miserable of all living creatures.“If they only had fire,” said Prometheus to himself, “they could at least warm themselves and cook their food。 and instead of lurking in the dark places of the world, they came out into the open air and the bright sunlight, and were glad because life had been given to them.After that, Prometheus taught them, little by little, a thousand things. He showed them how to build houses of wood and stone, and how to tame sheep and cattle and make them useful, and how to plow and sow and reap, and how to protect themselves from the storms of winter and the beasts of the woods. Then he showed them how to dig in the earth for copper and iron, and how to melt the ore, and how to hammer it into shape and fashion from it the tools and weapons which they needed in peace and war。 and another good manners。 and he led her down the mountain side to the place where Prometheus and his brother were living and toiling for the good of mankind.He met Epimetheus first, and said to him: “Epimetheus, here is a beautiful woman, whom Zeus has sent to you to be your wife.”Prometheus had often warned his brother to beware of any gift that Zeus might send, for he knew that the mighty tyrant could not be trusted。 and then she thought of how they would add to her beauty if only she could wear them. “Why did Zeus give them to me if I should never use them, nor so much as look at them?” she asked.The more she thought about the golden casket, the more curious she was to see what was in it。 once the ocean nymphs came and sang wonderful songs in his hearing。 and you shall bee the wife of the king of that lan