Prometheus The scope and character of Prometheus' transgressions against Zeus are also widened. In addition to giving humanity fire, Prometheus claims to have taught them the arts of civilization, such as writing, mathematics, agriculture, medicine, and science. The Titan's greatest benefaction for humanity seems to have been saving them from complete destruction. In an apparent twist on the myth of the so-called Five Ages of Man found in Hesiod's "Works and Days" (wherein Cronus and, later, Zeus created and destroyed five successive races of humanity), Prometheus asserts that Zeus had wanted to obliterate the human race, but that he somehow stopped
Race to Alaska was added from Tacoma, Washington to Port Townsend. The first race was in 2015. In 2016, 44 teams were accepted and 26 finished. In 2017, the race introduced the "Boat Buyback Prize", through which the race organizers would offer each boat that finished $10,000 to buy their boat, regardless of the boat's value. In 2018, the race introduced the Seventy48 race, a pre-race from Tacoma to Port Townsend. It is a 70-statute-mile human-powered only race in which the winner of the race receives as a prize all of the entry fees paid by participants. The race begins in Port Townsend