Mary Shelley evening, the discussions turned to the nature of the principle of life. "Perhaps a corpse would be re-animated", Mary noted, "galvanism had given token of such things". It was after midnight before they retired, and unable to sleep, she became possessed by her imagination as she beheld the "grim terrors" of her "waking dream", her ghost story: She began writing what she assumed would be a short story. With Percy Shelley's encouragement, she expanded this tale into her first novel, "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus", published in 1818. She later described that summer in Switzerland as the moment "when I
Prometheus the Fire-Bringer than the father, namely Achilles, Greek hero of the Trojan War. Consequently, Zeus reconciles with Prometheus. Finally, Athenaeus (a grammarian of the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD), wrote of a contemporary Athenian festival dedicated to Prometheus: "Aeschylus clearly states in the "Unbound" that in honor of Prometheus we place a garland on the head as recompense of his bondage." Some scholars have taken this to mean that in the "Unbound", Prometheus prophesies that eventually (in the "Fire-Bringer"), Zeus would reconcile with him, and institute some kind of festival in his honor. Given the title of the play, and considering that