Scanned text contains errors. 3. A son of Alegenor, a Boeotian,
fought in the Trojan war. (Horn. II. xiv. 475.) PROMATHIDES
(npo^aOi^s), of Heracleia, wrote a work entitled 'H/xfajUgot,
which treated of mythological subjects (Athen. vii. p. 296, b.).
Besides this work, which must have been in poetry, Promathides
also wrote other works in prose, among which was one on the
history of his native town. Athenaeus quotes his account of the
cup of Nestor (Athen. xi. p. 489, b. ; Schol. ad ApolL Mod. i.
1126, ii. 815,847, 913, 931 ; Steph. Byz. s. v. TaAAos).
Promathides is placed by Passow a little before the time of
Augustus. (Vossius, de Hist. Graec. p. 492, ed. Westermann.)
PROMETHEUS (Upo^eevs}, is sometimes called a Titan, though in
reality he did not belong to the Titans, but was only a son of
the Titan lapetus (whence he is designated by the patronymic
'Iowr€Ti(W5T]s, Hes. Theog. 528 ; Apollon Rhod. iii. 1087), by
Clymene, so that he was a brother of Atlas, Menoetius, and
Epimetheus (Hes. Theog. 507). His nam