Zeus pumshes men for Prometheus's theft of fire

"Son of Iapetos, clever above all others, you are pleased at having stolen fire and outwitted me—a great calamity both for yourself and for men to come To set against the fire I shall give them an affliction in which they will all delight as they embrace their own misfortune " So saying, the father of gods and men laughed aloud, and he told renowned Hephaestus at once to mix earth with water, to add in a human voice and strength, and to model upon the immortal goddesses' aspect the fair lovely form of a maiden Athene he told to teach her crafts, to weave the embroidered web, and golden Aphrodite to shower charm about her head, and painful yearning and consuming obsession, to put in a bitch's mind and a knavish...