The ancient Greek meaning of idiot, along with their myths, can help us avert a modern tragedy of reason. Somehow a sub-natural view of rationality ignores evolutions great gifts to us: our capacities for forethought and cooperation. The myth of Prometheus, who stole fire from the gods, describes human origins. For our ancestors “every act was without knowledge, until Prometheus gave them his illicit gift, which would become their teacher of every art.” The word for “art” in ancient Greek was “techne,” the root of technique & technology. Prometheus, whose name means “fore-thinker,” symbolizes science and foresight. - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/07/26/greek-myths-about-human-origins/