The punishment of Prometheus as a consequence of the theft is a major theme of his myth, and is a popular subject of both ancient and modern art. Zeus, king of the Olympian gods, punished Promitheus by sentencing him to eternal torment for his transgression. The immortal Prometheus was bound to a rock, where each day an eagle, the emblem of Zeus, was sent to feed on his liver, which would then grow back overnight to be eaten again the next day. (In ancient Greece, the liver was thought to be the core of human emotions.) Prometheus is set free at last by the hero Hercules.
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