The war of gods and titans first recounted in Hesiod's Theogony is likewise such a
heavenly battle: it was won by Jupiter only after Prometheus came over to the side
of the gods on the strength of Jupiter's promise to ameliorate the human condition,
a promise he later betrayed. Percy Bysshe Shelley develops this scenario in Asia's
long recital of the legendary history in Prometheus Unbound, II.iv.32ff.