Summaries and Commentaries

Chapter 12

Prometheus  legendary titan of Greek mythology who stole fire from the gods and brought it to earth. He was punished by Zeus, who chained him to a rock and had a vulture eat out his liver daily. But thereafter humans had fire to keep warm and to light the darkest night.

Gaea  goddess of Greek mythology who gave birth to the earth and to the titans.

City of the Damned  city in which Prometheus and Gaea formerly resided, and from which they fled.

Ego  the self. That aspect of an individual which that thinks, forms values, and makes judgments. Here it refers to the need that individuals have to be liberated of the stifling restraints of collectivism, free to use their own minds and glory in their own individual uniqueness.

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