Prometheus (Xena episode)
| Xena: Warrior Princess episode | |
|---|---|
| “Prometheus” | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 8 |
| Guest star(s) | Michael Hurst (Iolaus); Kevin Sorbo (Hercules) |
| Writer(s) | R.J. Stewart; Robert Field (editor) |
| Director | Stephen L. Posey |
| Production no. | 76910 |
| Original airdate | 1995 Nov. 6 |
| Episode chronology | |
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| "The Titans" | "Death in Chains" |
Xena and Gabrielle meet up with Hercules and Iolaus, all trying to free Prometheus who has gotten himself chained up by the gods. The only problem is that whoever frees him might die trying.
Major fight scene in which Xena is picked up by a giant flying Roc, but manages to harness it (painfully) and head back to the battle to save Prometehus.
Gabrielle has some heart-to-heart chats with Iolaus about Sidekick 101, and develops a crush on him. Xena show her protective side by making Hercules promise that if she dies, he will make sure that Gabrielle enrolls in the Athens Bard Academy.
Gabrielle tells the dying Iolaus the story of how humankind was once three whole beings, a man, a woman, and a hermaphrodite, each cut in two. People search eternally for their other half. The original story (told in Plato's Symposium by Aristophanes) was an allegorical explanation for the existence of love and attraction between men, between women, and between men and women.