As punishment Prometheus was chained to a mountain

• A. turned to a bird
• B. chained to a mountain
• C. exiled from Olympus
• D. banished to Tartarus

Answer: (B)

Prometheus’s punishment centers on binding to a mountain after defying Zeus by giving fire to humanity. In the most common telling, he is chained to a rock on a mountain (often Mount Caucasus), and an eagle torments him daily by eating his liver, which regrows each night. This image of perpetual, unending suffering through restraint on a high, exposed place is the defining punishment in the myth. That’s why describing it as being chained to a mountain fits exactly and is the best answer. The other options—being turned into a bird, exile from Olympus, or banishment to Tartarus—do not align with the traditional story of Prometheus’s fate, which centers on imprisonment on a mountainside rather than transformation, exile from the divine world, or prison in Tartarus.