Author: Aeschylus
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590178610
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Prometheus Bound is the starkest and strangest of the classic Greek tragedies, a play in which god and man are presented as radically, irreconcilably at odds. It begins with the shock of hammer blows as the Titan Prometheus is shackled to a rock in the Caucasus. This is his punishment for giving the gift of fire to humankind and for thwarting Zeus’s decision to exterminate the human race. Prometheus’s pain is unceasing, but he refuses to recant his commitment to humanity, to whom he has also brought the knowledge of writing, mathematics, medicine, and architecture. He hints that he knows how Zeus will be brought low in the future, but when Hermes demands that Prometheus divulge his secret, he refuses and is sent spinning into the abyss by a divine thunderbolt. To whom does humanity look for guidance: to the supreme deity or to the rebel Titan? What law controls the cosmos? Prometheus Bound, one of the great poetic achievements of the ancient world, appears here in a splendid new translation by Joel Agee that does full justice to the harsh and keening music of the original Greek.
Prometheus Bound
Author: Aeschylus
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590178610
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Prometheus Bound is the starkest and strangest of the classic Greek tragedies, a play in which god and man are presented as radically, irreconcilably at odds. It begins with the shock of hammer blows as the Titan Prometheus is shackled to a rock in the Caucasus. This is his punishment for giving the gift of fire to humankind and for thwarting Zeus’s decision to exterminate the human race. Prometheus’s pain is unceasing, but he refuses to recant his commitment to humanity, to whom he has also brought the knowledge of writing, mathematics, medicine, and architecture. He hints that he knows how Zeus will be brought low in the future, but when Hermes demands that Prometheus divulge his secret, he refuses and is sent spinning into the abyss by a divine thunderbolt. To whom does humanity look for guidance: to the supreme deity or to the rebel Titan? What law controls the cosmos? Prometheus Bound, one of the great poetic achievements of the ancient world, appears here in a splendid new translation by Joel Agee that does full justice to the harsh and keening music of the original Greek.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590178610
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Prometheus Bound is the starkest and strangest of the classic Greek tragedies, a play in which god and man are presented as radically, irreconcilably at odds. It begins with the shock of hammer blows as the Titan Prometheus is shackled to a rock in the Caucasus. This is his punishment for giving the gift of fire to humankind and for thwarting Zeus’s decision to exterminate the human race. Prometheus’s pain is unceasing, but he refuses to recant his commitment to humanity, to whom he has also brought the knowledge of writing, mathematics, medicine, and architecture. He hints that he knows how Zeus will be brought low in the future, but when Hermes demands that Prometheus divulge his secret, he refuses and is sent spinning into the abyss by a divine thunderbolt. To whom does humanity look for guidance: to the supreme deity or to the rebel Titan? What law controls the cosmos? Prometheus Bound, one of the great poetic achievements of the ancient world, appears here in a splendid new translation by Joel Agee that does full justice to the harsh and keening music of the original Greek.
The Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus
Author: Aeschylus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Prometheus Bound, a Tragedy, from the Greek. [By Thomas Medwin.]
Three Greek Plays
Author:
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393002034
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Three classic Greek tragedies are translated and critically introduced by Edith Hamilton.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393002034
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Three classic Greek tragedies are translated and critically introduced by Edith Hamilton.
The Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus
Author: Aeschylus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107619971
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Originally published in 1899, this book contains the Greek text of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound. The tragedy is prefaced with a history of Prometheus in Greek myth and an attempted reconstruction of the other two plays in the Prometheus trilogy, of which Prometheus Bound is the only extant piece.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107619971
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Originally published in 1899, this book contains the Greek text of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound. The tragedy is prefaced with a history of Prometheus in Greek myth and an attempted reconstruction of the other two plays in the Prometheus trilogy, of which Prometheus Bound is the only extant piece.
Prometheus Chained
Prometheus Unbound
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Prometheus Bound
Author: Aeschylus
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486287629
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Aeschylus based his epic drama on the legendary tale of Prometheus, the Titan who stole fire from the gods for the benefit of humanity. Prometheus's terrible punishment remains a universal symbol of human vulnerability in any struggle with the gods, and this ancient play continues to entrance audiences with its timeless appeal.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486287629
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Aeschylus based his epic drama on the legendary tale of Prometheus, the Titan who stole fire from the gods for the benefit of humanity. Prometheus's terrible punishment remains a universal symbol of human vulnerability in any struggle with the gods, and this ancient play continues to entrance audiences with its timeless appeal.
The Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus
Prometheus Bound
Author: Aeschylus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prometheus (Greek deity)
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prometheus (Greek deity)
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description