ABSTRACT
Hesiod relates that Prometheus was the arbiter at a contest between the gods and men to decide which share of the sacrificial animals should fall to the gods and which to men; he relates that Prometheus gave the better part to men. Aeschylus first shows the crucifixion of Prometheus upon the rock, during which Prometheus is completely silent. This recalls the silence of Isaiah's just man and the silence of the Christ: 'He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth'. The vocabulary of this tragedy presents many oddities, rare words, which are doubtless words of double meaning to which we have lost the key. The key ought to be in the liturgy of the Mysteries. Prometheus sacrifice never appears as a historical dated fact which might have happened at a certain point of time and at a certain place.
