Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Promethean Fire

The vital principle; the fire with which Prometheus quickened into life his clay images. (See Prometheus.)

I know not where is that Promethean heat
That can thy life relume.

Shakespeare: Othello, v. 2.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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