Prometheus Bound
Prometheus Bound (Prometheus desmotes; Prometheus vinctus) Author: Aeschylus?
First Performance: c.466–459 BC
First English Translation: 1777
Genre: Greek trag. in verse
Setting: A rocky gorge in the mountains, in the mythical past
Cast: 6m, 1f, chorus (f)
Cratos and Bia drag on the bound Prometheus, in order to assist Hephaestus, the gods' blacksmith, to forge Prometheus' chains to a rock. Prometheus is to be punished terribly for disobeying Zeus and bringing fire to the human race. Remaining silent until he is alone, the Titan Prometheus unleashes a monologue of anger and defiance: he bewails the fact that, although he is himself a god, he must suffer divine injustice. The chorus of the daughters of the sea god Oceanus attempt to console him. But Prometheus is unrelenting in his angry denunciation of...
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