Question

When zeus says, "son of iapetus, surpassing all in cunning, you are glad that you have outwitted me and stolen fire -- a great plague to you yourself and to men that shall be. but i will give men as the price for fire an evil thing in which they may take pleasure to their gut, while they embrace their own destruction.” what is the "evil" he means?

Answer 1

I think in this quote, Zeus is referring to the fire as the "evil thing in which they may take pleasure to their gut," because he refers to it right before he uses the word evil to describe it.