The Fire Thief (novel) The Fire Thief (novel) The Fire Thief was written by Terry Deary and is the first book in The Fire Thief Trilogy. The book is about Prometheus, the Greek Titan who, in Greek mythology, is said to have stolen fire from the gods and given it to humans. The story tells of Prometheus when he is chained to a rock and about to have his liver ripped out by the Fury, but instead he is freed by the hero Hercules. He grabs the Fury, breaks its neck and runs away after he has been freed from the mountain he was
Andromeda Chained to the Rocks painted women as he saw them; naturally imperfect and flawed. Rembrandt's subsequent nude mythological paintings from this period "Diana Bathing" and "Danaë" show his evolving portrayal of the nude. Andromeda Chained to the Rocks Andromeda Chained to the Rocks (1630) is a 34 x 25 oil on panel painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt. It is now in the Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands. Andromeda represents Rembrandt's first full length mythological female nude history painting and is taken from a story in Ovid's "Metamorphoses". In Metamorphoses, Andromeda (mythology) is the daughter of an Ethiopian king and queen, Cepheus and