Semester 2, Week 3 notes

• The creatures of Prometheus (1801) is a song composed by Ludwig Van Bethoven.
• Prometheus is the bringer of fire and took fire from the gods to give to mankind. He was punished by the god of Jupiter and tied to a rock whilst vultures came to eat out his Liver everyday for 30 years.
• Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is the modern Prometheus (1818).
• Prometheus is the adopted god of romanticism.

Prometheus

• Percy Shelly's Ozymandias- Also known as Ramesses II, ruled Egypt for 67 years and was one of the great Pharaohs. She wrote a famous sonnet about him in January 11 1818.
• The Egyptian empire in the time of Ozymandias was the most powerful in the world, but at the time when Percy Shelly wrote her sonnet, the British empire was the most powerful. So I find it extremely pretentious of the British to bring the Statue of Ozymandias to the British Museum. Because its almost as if the British are saying that they are great because they have everything that's great from other countries in there own country. I'm pretty sure that Ramesses himself would of preferred his statue to stay in Egypt.