Pro-mē'the-ūs or Pro-mē'theūs, n.

(Gr. Myth.) The son of Iapetus, one of the Titans, and Clymene, fabled by the poets to have surpassed all mankind in knowledge, and to have formed men of clay, to whom he gave life by means of fire stolen from heaven, at which Jupiter being angry, sent Mercury to bind him to Mount Caucasus, and placed a vulture to prey upon his liver.