Prometheus occupies a position of exceptional density in the depth-psychological and archetypal corpus, functioning simultaneously as mythological protagonist, psychological type, civilizational symbol, and astrological archetype. The tradition does not speak with one voice. Kerényi reads the Titan philologically, tracing his role as separator of men from gods, distributor of lots, and ambiguous craftsman sharing kinship with Hephaistos and Kronos. Vernant situates Prometheus within the structural logic of Hesiodic theology, where the fire-theft inaugurates the technological condition of humanity and establishes the irreversible gap between mortal labour and divine ease. Jung deploys the Prometheus-Epimetheus polarity in Psychological Types to illuminate the introvert-extravert dialectic: Prometheus as the soul-possessed, suffering introvert whose creativity is mediated through inner torment, Epimetheus as the extravert liberated by the feminine. Edinger and Hillman extend the fire symbolism into alchemical and transformative registers. The most systematic archetypal-astrological treatment belongs to Tarnas, who argues at length that the mythological Prometheus—rebel, culture-bringer, sufferer, liberator—describes the empirical astrological signature of the planet Uranus with far greater precision than the mythological Ouranos does, and who maps the Prometheus-Saturn dialectic onto historical cycles of emancipation and repression. Greene, from within the same astrological tradition, links the Promethean spirit to Aquarius and reads it as an expression of self-punishing altruism shadowed by Jovian hubris. The central tension throughout is between Prometheus as heroic transgressor who elevates humanity and Prometheus as the figure whose gifts inaugurate suffering, bondage, and the ambivalence of technology.