Prometheus (disambiguation)

Prometheus is a figure in Greek mythology.

Prometheus may also refer to:

Astronomy and space exploration

• Prometheus (moon), of Saturn
• Prometheus (volcano), on Jupiter's moon Io
• Project Prometheus, NASA's nuclear propulsion program
• 1809 Prometheus, an asteroid
• Prometheus (spacecraft), a proposed spacecraft by Orbital Sciences Corporation

Companies and organizations

• Prometheus Books, a publishing company
• Prometheus Entertainment, film producer
• Prometheus Global Media, entertainment publisher
• Prometheus Institute, a non-profit advocating independent policy solutions
• Prometheus Society, a high IQ society

Literature

• "Prometheus" (Goethe), a poem
• "Prometheus" (short story), a short story by Franz Kafka
• Prometheus (comics), the name of several DC Comics supervillains
• Prometheus (Marvel Comics), a superhero
• Prometheus Award, for libertarian science fiction
• "Prometheus", an 1816 poem by George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
• "Prometheus", an 1832 poem by Thomas Kibble Hervey
• Prometheia, a 5th century B.C. trilogy of plays by Aeschylus
• Prometheus Unbound (disambiguation), an 1820 play by poet Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Anthem, A novel by Ayn Rand which features a character who latter changes his name to Prometheus.
• Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, a novel by Mary Shelley

Film and television

• Prometheus (2012 film), a science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott
• Prometheus (Stargate), a fictional spacecraft from the Stargate franchise
• USS Prometheus, a fictional spacecraft in the episode "Message in a Bottle" of Star Trek: Voyager
• USS Prometheus, another fictional starship in the episode "Second Sight" of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• Project Prometheus (Smallville), a fictional bioenhancement suit
• "Prometheus and Bob", an animation segment on the TV cartoon show KaBlam!
• Prometheus, a 1965 film by Vlado Kristl
• Prometheus (1998 film), a film-poem by Tony Harrison
• Prometheus, a 2008 drama film by Lis Anna
• Prometheus (Zoltan Deme film), an unreleased science fiction short film by Zoltan Deme

Music

• Benji Vaughan, a British psychedelic trance musician who sometimes releases music under the name "Prometheus"
• Creatures of Prometheus, an 1801 ballet by Ludwig van Beethoven
• "Prometheus" (art song), an 1819 song by Franz Schubert
• "Prometheus" (Liszt), an 1850 symphonic poem
• "Prometheus: The Poem of Fire", a 1910 orchestral poem by Alexander Scriabin
• Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise, an album by Emperor
• Prometheus chord
• Prometheus, a 1968 opera by Carl Orff

Gaming

• Promethean: The Created, a role-playing game
• Prometheus, a The Conduit character
• Prometheus, an Earthsiege character
• Prometheus, a Mega Man ZX character
• Robo, a Chrono Trigger character, originally known as Prometheus
• Prometheus, an upcoming PC video game
• PROMETHEUS, a series of battle droids in TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
• Prometheus, a planet on which the Eridian artifacts were first discovered, in the video game Borderlands

Fictional races and species

• Prometheans, an ecumene enemy in the Halo (series)

Transportation

• HMS Prometheus, several ships
• USS Prometheus, several ships
• Prometheus, GWR Iron Duke Class locomotive (1850-1887)
• Prometheus, one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915, formerly named Nelson before 1895

Other uses

• Prometheus (tree), the oldest known tree
• Prometheus Camp, Finnish summer camp
• Prometheus Radio Project
• EUREKA Prometheus Project, research project on driverless cars
• Prometheism, Polish political project
• Prometheus, a liver dialysis system

See also

• Prom (disambiguation)
• Prome, town in Burma
• Prometh, chemical
• Promethea, comic book series
• Promethium (disambiguation)