PROMETHEUS Son of the Titan Japetos, Prometheus saw the deplorable condition of man, who was withoutthe fire that Zeus so jealously guarded, and his heart was wrung with pity for them.Prometheus had already incurred the wrath of the father of the gods when he hadofficiated in a test to see exactly how much of an animal should be sacrificed by mento the gods. Prometheus slaughtered an ox, wrapped up all the edible parts in the skinof the animal as one portion, and disguised the bones and other worthless parts withfat as the other portion. Then he offered the two portions to Zeus, who chose theworthless one.