Prometheus the race of women and female kind: of her is the deadly race and tribe of women who live amongst mortal men to their great trouble, no helpmeets in hateful poverty, but only in wealth" (590–594). Prometheus is chained to a rock in the Caucasus for eternity, where his liver is eaten daily by an eagle, only to be regenerated by night, due to his immortality. The eagle is a symbol of Zeus himself. Years later, the Greek hero Heracles (Hercules) slays the eagle and frees Prometheus from his torment (520–528). Hesiod revisits the story of Prometheus and the theft
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