Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: BCE

  • The wounds of Christ and Prometheus – two of a kind?

    Julia van Rosmalen Thomas van Gulik Amsterdam, Netherlands   Fig. 1. Peter Paul Rubens, Prometheus Bound, 1611-1612. The eagle has buried its claws into the face and leg of Prometheus and uses its beak to tear out part of his liver that it has extracted through the right side of his chest. In the lower…