ABSTRACT
Countless nineteenth- and twentieth-century commentators have noted the clear parallel drawn between Jesus Christ and Prometheus by the Fathers of the Church. At the very beginning of the Christian era, there was no evolution of the Prometheus myth, as the early Fathers of the Church did not attempt to link the myth to the Bible. The Christian apologists therefore attempted to highlight the absurd, even ridiculous, aspects of myths, and to show that they were nothing but distorted stories or historical facts. The first Fathers of the Church therefore adopted the theory of Euhemerism in order to counteract the tendency to return to myths, if not in the form of idolworship, at least as a way of thinking. One of the most troubling aspects of the Prometheus myth, and one which conflicted with the theory of God's Creation, was the representation of Prometheus as the creator of mankind.
