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Quote #10
PROMETHEUS. Next, on your left hand, dwell the Chalybes, workers in iron: beware of them, for they are savage and not safe for strangers to approach. You will then come to the Violent River, not inaptly named; do not cross it—it is not easy to cross—until you come to Caucasus itself, the highest of mountains, where the river pours its strength off from the very summit. After crossing over those peaks close to the stars, you must take the way to the south, where you will come to the man-hating host of the Amazons, who will one day settle at Themiscyra on the Thermodon, where is the savage cape of Salmydessus, inhospitable to sailors, the stepmother of ships. They will be very glad to guide you on your way. (714-728)
Prometheus is really fixated on the way that people use technology to dominate nature. The Chalybes, for example, are known for being iron-workers. The Amazons are separate from nature in another way: as an all-female community ("man-hating" as Prometheus calls them), they've separated themselves from the reproductive cycle. Is this diversity of human behavior unnatural, or does it reflect some part of human nature itself?