The king of the gods sat down for an interview. He did not expect the questions.

Zeus answers for the father who ate his children, the war on the Titans, Prometheus and the fire, the wife he swallowed, the women in his stories, and the son he could not save. He boasts, he dodges, he threatens, and at one point he gets up to leave. Then Prometheus calls in.

Did the boy who escaped a devouring father become one?

Chapters
Zeus walks into the studio
The boy hidden from his father
The war on Kronos
Prometheus and the fire
Prometheus calls in
The wife he swallowed
The women
Sarpedon, the son he couldn't save
(Rapid-fire
The verdict

What the myths actually say

• "I saved my siblings alone." Rhea hid him and tricked Kronos with a stone; Gaia's plan (Hesiod) or a drug from Metis (Apollodorus) made Kronos bring them back.
• "Prometheus was just a thief." The quarrel began when Zeus withheld fire; Prometheus stole it back for humans (Hesiod, Theogony).
• "Metis and I merged." He swallowed her while she was pregnant to prevent the birth of a son (Hesiod, Theogony).
• "They were honored." Many ancient accounts describe deception, abduction or force (Moschus, Ovid, Apollodorus).

Sources: Hesiod (Theogony), Homer (Iliad), the Homeric Hymns, Aeschylus (Prometheus Bound), Pindar (Isthmian 8), Apollodorus (Library), Ovid (Metamorphoses), Moschus (Europa).

Cast: Julian H. Cross · Zeus · Call-in: Prometheus

Content note: violence and abduction, named honestly and never graphically.

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