Prometheus is a figure in Greek mythology.

Prometheus may also refer to:

Astronomy and spaceflight

  • Prometheus (moon), a moon of Saturn
  • Prometheus (volcano), a volcano on Io
  • 1809 Prometheus, an asteroid
  • Prometheus (rocket engine), a reusable rocket engine under development by the European Space Agency
  • Prometheus (spacecraft), a proposed spacecraft by Orbital Sciences Corporation
  • Project Prometheus, NASA's nuclear propulsion program

Film and television

  • Prometheus, a 1965 film by Vlado Kristl
  • Prometheus (1998 film), a film-poem by Tony Harrison
  • Prometheus (2012 film), an alien science fiction film by Ridley Scott featuring the fictional starship USCSS Prometheus
  • Prometheus: War of Fire, a 2019 South Korean television series featuring Ki Hong Lee
  • Prometheus (Stargate), a fictional spacecraft from the Stargate franchise
  • Prometheus, a fictional experimental aircraft in The Sound Barrier
  • USS Prometheus, a fictional spacecraft in the episode "Message in a Bottle" of Star Trek: Voyager
  • USS Prometheus, a fictional starship in the episode "Second Sight" of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  • Prometheus CVS-101, a fictional super-carrier from Macross and Robotech
  • Prometheus, a fictional steam ship from 1899
  • "Promortyus", a 2019 episode of the fourth season of Rick and Morty

Gaming

  • Robo or Prometheus, a Chrono Trigger character
  • Prometheus, a The Conduit character
  • Prometheus, a Mega Man ZX character
  • PROMETHEUS, a series of battle droids in TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
  • Prometheus, a Starsiege character, leader of the Cybrid Faction

Literature

  • "Prometheus" (short story), a short story by Franz Kafka
  • "Prometheus" (Goethe), a poem by Goethe
  • Prometheus (DC Comics), several DC Comics supervillains
  • Prometheus (Marvel Comics), a superhero
  • Prometheus Award, an award for libertarian science fiction
  • "Prometheus", an 1816 poem by Lord Byron
  • "Prometheus", an 1832 poem by Thomas Kibble Hervey
  • Prometheus, a series in the Appleseed franchise
  • Prometheus, a character in Anthem, a novella by Ayn Rand

Music

  • "Prometheus" (art song), an 1819 song by Franz Schubert
  • "Prometheus" (Liszt), an 1850 symphonic poem
  • Prometheus (Wagner-Régeny), an opera by Rudolf Wagner-Régeny
  • Prometheus (Orff), a 1968 opera by Carl Orff
  • Prometheus (musician) or Benji Vaughan, British psychedelic trance musician
  • Prometheus (soundtrack), a soundtrack album from the 2012 film
  • "Prometheus: The Poem of Fire", a 1910 orchestral poem by Alexander Scriabin
  • Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise, an album by Emperor
  • "Prometheus, Symphonia Ignis Divinus", an album by Luca Turilli's Rhapsody
  • Prometheus chord, a chord from Scriabin's harmonic language
  • "Prometheus", a 2013 song by Erra from Augment
  • "Prometheus", a 2015 song by Crystal Lake from The Sign

Organizations

  • Prometheus Books
  • Prometheus Camp, a Finnish summer camp
  • Prometheus Entertainment
  • Prometheus Film or Mezhrabpomfilm
  • Prometheus Fuels
  • Prometheus Global Media
  • Prometheus Institute
  • Prometheus Products, a defunct American modem and sound card manufacturer
  • Prometheus Radio Project

Transportation

  • HMS Prometheus (1898), a Pelorus-class protected cruiser
  • USS Prometheus (1814), a brig in the United States Navy
  • USS Prometheus (AR-3), a repair ship that served during World War I and World War II
  • Prometheus, a GWR Iron Duke Class locomotive (1850–1887)
  • Prometheus, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive (1891–1915)
  • Prometheus, a British Rail Class 76 (EM1) locomotive
  • Eureka PROMETHEUS Project, a research project on driverless cars
  • EFF Prometheus, a motor glider (1970s)

Visual arts

  • Prometheus (Manship), a sculpture in New York City
  • Prometheus (Orozco), a fresco mural in Claremont, California
  • Prometheus (Zach), a cast-iron sculpture by Jan Zach in Eugene, Oregon
  • Prometheus, a bas-relief by Yuri Bosco in Tolyatti

Other uses

  • Prometheus (moth), a genus of moths in the family Castniidae
  • Prometheus (software), a monitoring system with a time series database
  • Prometheus (tree), one of the oldest known trees

See also

  • American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, biography by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
  • Prometeo (magazine), Spanish avant-garde magazine
  • The Creatures of Prometheus, an 1801 ballet score by Beethoven
  • Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, an 1818 novel by Mary Shelley
  • HMS Prometheus, a list of ships
  • Mayo v. Prometheus, an important case in US patent law
  • "The Post-Modern Prometheus", the 1997 X-Files season 5 episode 5
  • Promethea, a comic book series
  • Promethea, a planet in Borderlands
  • Promethean (disambiguation)
  • Prométhée (Fauré), a 1910 opera by Gabriel Fauré
  • French submarine Prométhée (1930), a submarine of the French Navy
  • Preference ranking organization method for enrichment evaluation (PROMETHEE)
  • Prometheia, a 5th-century B.C. trilogy of plays by Aeschylus
  • Prometheism, a Polish political project
  • Prometheus Bound, a play traditionally attributed to Aeschylus
  • Prometheus II, a Greek resistance organization during World War II
  • Prometheus Unbound (disambiguation)
  • Promethium (disambiguation)
  • USS Prometheus, a list of ships