Prometheus Bound (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Aeschylus
- First Published: 1777
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Tragedy
- Time of Work: Antiquity
- Setting: A barren cliff in Scythia
- Principal Characters: Prometheus, Hephaestus, Kratos, Bia, Oceanus, Io, Hermes
- Genres: Drama, Tragedy
- Subjects: Mythology or myths, Legends, Gods or goddesses, Heroes or heroism, Fire, Greek or Roman times, Greece or Greek people
- Locales: Greece, ancient, Argos, ancient, Scythia, ancient
The Story:
Condemned by Zeus for giving fire to mortals, the Titan Prometheus was brought to a barren cliff in Scythia by Hephaestus, the god of fire, and two guards named Kratos and Bia. There he was to be bound to the jagged cliffs with bonds as strong as adamant. Kratos and Bia were willing to obey Zeus’s commands, but Hephaestus experienced pangs of sorrow and was reluctant to bind his kinsman to the storm-beaten cliff in that desolate region where no one ever came and where Prometheus would never again hear the voice or see the form of a human being. He grieved that the...
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