Basically to charge something at a price that people wouldn't pay in their right mind. (Excessive charge).
I think the answer would be that it provides a framework for the plot
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According to Hesiod's Theogony, after Prometheus, a fire god and divine trickster, had stolen fire from heaven and bestowed it upon mortals, Zeus, the king of the gods, determined to counteract this blessing.
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