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Prometheus Bound ( Ancient Greek: Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης, romanized : Promētheús Desmṓtēs) is an ancient Greek tragedy traditionally attributed to Aeschylus and thought to have been composed sometime between 479 BC and the terminus ante quem of 424 BC.
Prometheus Bound, tragedy by Aeschylus, the dating of which is uncertain. The play concerns the god Prometheus, who in defiance of Zeus (Jupiter) has saved humanity with his gift of fire.
PROMETHEUS. Oh that he had conveyed me 'Neath earth, 'neath hell that swalloweth up the dead; In Tartarus, illimitably vast With adamantine fetters bound me fast- There his fierce anger on me visited, Where never mocking laughter could upbraid me Of God or aught beside!
Jan 11, 2022 · “Prometheus Bound” (Gr: “Prometheus Desmotes” ) is a tragedy often attributed to the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus although it is now usually considered to be almost certainly the work of another (unknown) hand, perhaps as late as 415 BCE.
Feb 2, 2018 · A seventh surviving play Prometheus Bound is the subject of some dispute. As part of a trilogy together with Prometheus Unbound and Prometheus Firebringer, it was written around the time of Aeschylus' death ; however, some scholars claim it was actually written by someone else, possibly his son Euphorion.
A short summary of Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Prometheus Bound.
Prometheus Bound is a play by the ancient Greek tragedian Aeschylus that was likely written around 456 BCE. It tells the story of Prometheus, a Titan who defies the gods by giving fire to humanity and is subsequently punished by Zeus.
AESCHYLUS, PROMETHEUS BOUND. AESCHYLUS was a Greek tragedian who flourished in Athens in the early C5th B.C. Of the 76 plays he is known to have written only seven survive--1. The Persians, 2. Seven Against Thebes, 3. Suppliant Women, 4 - 6. The Oresteia Trilogy ( Agamemnon, Libation Bearers or Choephori and The Eumenides ), 7.
Prometheus Bound is thought to be the first in a trilogy called the Prometheia. The second and third plays, Prometheus Unbound (not to be confused with Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem of the same name) and Prometheus the Fire-Bringer respectively, did not survive antiquity.
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, line 1. card: Enter Power and Force, bringing with them the captive Prometheus; also Hephaestus. Power. To earth's remotest limit we come, to the Scythian land, an untrodden solitude.
