Prometheus Unbound (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- First Published: 1820
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Type of Plot: Allegory
- Time of Work: Antiquity
- Setting: Asia
- Principal Characters: Prometheus, Earth, Asia, Jupiter, Demogorgon, Mercury, Herakles, Panthea, Ione
- Genres: Poetry, Closet drama
- Subjects: Mythology or myths, Nineteenth century, Human race, Asia or Asians, Gods or goddesses, Heroes or heroism, Fire, Greek or Roman times, Romanticism
- Locales: Caucasus
The Story:
Prometheus, the benefactor of humankind, was bound to a rocky cliff by order of Jupiter, who was jealous of the Titan’s power. Three thousand years of torture Prometheus suffered there, while heat and cold and many torments afflicted him. An eagle continually ate at his heart. Prometheus nevertheless continued to defy the power of Jupiter. At last Prometheus asked Panthea and Ione, the two Oceanides, to repeat to him the curse he had pronounced upon Jupiter when Jupiter had first begun to torture him. Neither his mother Earth nor the Oceanides would answer him. At...
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