Dans la mythologie grecque, Prometheus -LRB-, "forethought '-RRB- The ancient Greek derivation of Prometheus from the Greek pro -LRB- before -RRB- + manthano -LRB- learn -RRB-, thus' 'forethought' ', which engendered a contrasting brother Epimetheus, was a folk etymology ; it is succinctly expressed in Servius' commentary on Virgil, Eclogue 6.42 : '' Prometheus vir prudentissimus fuit, unde etiam Prometheus dictus est, id est a providentia '".
Prometheus était un Titan de la mythologie grecque.