Aeschylus
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| Original Title: | Προμηθεύς Δεσμώτης |
| ISBN: | 0195061659 (ISBN13: 9780195061659) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Prometheus (mythology), Hephaestus, Hermes, Oceanus (Greek), Io, Oceanides, Kratos (Power), Bia (Force) |
| Setting: | Greece |
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For readers accustomed to the relatively undramatic standard translations of Prometheus Bound, this version by James Scully, a poet and winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize, and C. John Herington, one of the world's foremost Aeschylean scholars, will come as a revelation. Scully and Herington accentuate the play's true power, drama, and relevance to modern times. Aeschylus originally wrote Prometheus Bound as part of a tragic trilogy, and this translation is unique in including the extant fragments of the companion plays.Present Epithetical Books Prometheus Bound
| Title | : | Prometheus Bound |
| Author | : | Aeschylus |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | 2nd edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 144 pages |
| Published | : | February 1st 1990 by Oxford University Press, USA (first published -480) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Plays. Drama. Fantasy. Mythology. Fiction. Theatre. Literature |
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Ratings: 3.95 From 11137 Users | 537 ReviewsPiece Epithetical Books Prometheus Bound
How can someone LIKE AND ENJOY this boring piece of s*it ??? It's so terrible
Prometheus: someone who thinks forward.Prometheus Bound is a play based on the Greek Mythology. Prometheus, a titan (immortal), a descendant of original gods, Gaia and Ouranos (Earth and Heaven), is being imprisoned, chained and punished to death by Zeus (Olympus God) for being kind to human beings, for making them capable, giving them a head to think for themselves and nature and giving them a power to become equal to Gods.He stole fire from Olympus.He gave fire to men.He stopped men thinking
Poetic, dangerously verbose. Reading this makes it crystal clear to me that we are in a period that should be known as The Decline and Fall of Language. Why don't we speak with loquacious and romantic flair anymore? The bitter tears overfloweth from my grudging acknowledgment of my own personal contributions to the slang-ization and colloquial-bastardization of written language.* * *Anyway. What is this story about?In a nutshell: Prometheus is royally pissed at Zeus, everyone and everything, and
Prometheus one of the ultimate martyrs in history, fiction or real. Prometheus flaunts authority (Zeus) to steal fire to give to mankind to help lift them from their current life of poverty. The myth says it is the defining act that begins a flourishing of civilization. Prometheus suffers cruel & unusual punishment for his crime against the gods, or specifically his defiance of Zeus. He is chained in isolation, an ancient solitary confinement, for eternity.We are all sympathetic to
I'm shocked to see that only one of my Goodreads friends has read this play. This is my favorite work of ancient Greek literature. The story has some pretty deep meaning. It's really the inverse of the Fall From Grace. Instead of the human desire for knowledge resulting in the perverse punishment of Original Sin as issued by that sadistic toddler running the show in the Old Testament, we find a tale of heroic sacrifice which results in the illuminating powers of reason and curiosity being
Προμηθεύς Δεσμώτης = Promētheus Desmōtēs = Prometheus Bound, AeschylusPrometheus Bound is an Ancient Greek tragedy. In antiquity, it was attributed to Aeschylus, but now is considered by some scholars to be the work of another hand, and perhaps one as late as c. 430 BC. Despite these doubts of authorship, the play's designation as Aeschylean has remained conventional. The tragedy is based on the myth of Prometheus, a Titan who defies the gods and gives fire to mankind, acts for which he is
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