We advise watching before sharing with your class. The animation combines two well-known Ancient Greek myths. It begins with Prometheus, who along with his brother - Epimetheus - is charged by ...

Ancient Greeks saw Olympus as a divine realm of Zeus and the gods, not a mountain. Its link to Mount Olympus emerged in later traditions.

Commemorating the theft of fire from the Greek god Zeus by Prometheus, its origins lie in ancient Greece, where a fire was kept burning throughout the celebration of the ancient Olympics.

An initial idea to do the relay flame in hollow plant stalks — a nod to the Greek myth of Prometheus who stole fire from the gods — was ditched as impractical. DID THIS HAPPEN AT THE ANCIENT ...