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Deutsch: Römischer Reliefsarkophag mit Darstellung des Prometheus-Mythos (Prometheussarkophag), um 290/300 (Andreae) oder Anfang 4. Jh. n. Chr. (Sichtermann), Rom, Museo Capitolino. – Abbildung aus einem Buch von 1899, siehe dazu den englischen Text.
Obwohl dies insgesamt kein frühchristlicher Sarkophag ist, sind auf der linken Schmalseite (unter anderem) Adam und Eva unter dem Baum der Erkenntnis dargestellt.
Zum Sarkophag siehe:
Carl Robert: Einzelmythen. Dritte Abtheilung: Niobiden – Triptolemos. Ungedeutet (= Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs, Band 3.3). G. Grote’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1919, S. 441–444 Nr. 355 Taf. 116 (Digitalisat der UB Heidelberg).
Bernard Andreae: Prometheussarkophag, in: Wolfgang Helbig (Hrsg.): Führer durch die öffentlichen Sammlungen klassischer Altertümer in Rom. 4., völlig neu bearbeitete Auflage herausgegeben von Hermine Speier, Band 2. Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, Tübingen 1966, Nr. 1257.
Guntram Koch, Hellmut Sichtermann: Römische Sarkophage (= Handbuch der Archäologie). Verlag C. H. Beck, München 1982, ISBN 3-406-08709-4, S. 183–184 u. ö.
 
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Title: The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919
Subjects: Devil Demonology Good and evil
Publisher: Chicago : Open Court Pub. Co. London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner
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esthat the evils which he combated served to elicit his vir-tues, and were intended to try him (I., 6). Zeus, whois identified with God, is called his father and Herculesis said to be his son (III., 26). Hercules, when obligedto leave his children, knew them to be in the care ofGod. Epictetus says (HI., 24) : He knew that no man is an orphan, but that there is a fatheralways and constantly for all of them. He had not only heard thewords that Zeus was the father of men, for he regarded him as hisfather and called him such ; and looking up to him he did whatZeus did. Therefore he could live happily everywhere. In Christianity the struggles of the saviour receivea dualistic interpretation and are spiritualised into a vic- * In the beautiful sarcophagus (see illustration on p. 212) which represents thePrometheus myth, the first design is apparently incomplete; for we should expectto see Prometheus represented as stealing the fire and offering it to Deukalion. 212 THE HISTORY OF THE DEVIL.
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GREECE AND ITALY, 213 tory over the temptations of the flesh and other world!)- passions. * The conception of evil as hell received a philosophi-cal foundation in the dualism of Plato who did not shrinkfrom depicting its minutest details ; and his views of thefuture state of the soul, its rewards in heaven and hell,are in close agreement with Christian doctrines, even in

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