Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. Near them are their three winged sisters.

Hephaistos Kratos and Via, you’ve done your part of Zeus’ command. Three gods—Hephaestus, Power, and Violence—are leading a fourth, Prometheus, who is their prisoner. They stop, look around and Kratos, feeling satisfied, they all drop their heavy chains to the ground. Prometheus Well, since you insist, I will not refuse. I have pointed out to them the speckled beauty of the liver-lobe and showed them how to burn the limbs wrapped in fat and their long back bone. -Graham S. Download Historical Context of Prometheus Bound.
No, absolutely not! Join for Free Chorus May I never be slow in offering to the gods sacred sacrifices of slaughtered oxen by the shores of the endless stream of my father, Oceanus. Hephaistos No one but Prometheus could criticise the quality of my work! Prometheus I know that Zeus is harsh and that Justice is in his hands but I know, too, that one day he will be softer –once he is crushed the way I think he will be and once his anger has subsided. Chorus You haven’t, by any chance, committed a further offence? Firstly, and most importantly, I have showen them how to mix soothing remedies with which they can stay clear of any malady because, before that, if they fell ill they could do nothing about it. Look to it now, Hephaestus--thine it is, Thy Sire obeying, this arch-thief to clench. "My students can't get enough of your charts and their results have gone through the roof." Publication date 1975 Topics Prometheus (Greek deity) Publisher New York : Oxford University Press Collection americana Digitizing sponsor Google Book from the collections of Harvard University Language English; Ancient Greek. Chorus O, venerable Fates! I know the future and all that it will bring and I know all my suffering beforehand, so I must endure as best I can what Necessity has sent upon me because she cannot be resisted.

Prometheus Yes, I do, Oceanus. 740. And yes, I invented for them numbers, too, the most important science; and the stringing up of letters, the art of Memory, the mother of the Muses. Oh, Earth! As for Zeus, I care even less than nothing. Hephaestus chains Prometheus to a rock. Prometheus I see it as a wasted effort, Oceanus and a simple-minded goodwill. 80. Look there!

Chorus Has he not allocated an end to these pains? I want to keep them free, but need some support to be able to do so. If you find a book you're after, please donate and support the site.

Who is there, as ill-fated as I am? Of Aeschylus’s seven surviving plays, including. I feel your agony! Typho will boil over with such rage and with weapons of fire-breathing storm, even though he had been reduced to ashes by Zeus’ thunderbolt. The four following lines, within brackets, translate four lines, quoted by Galen from the Prometheus Bound, placed here by Paley, on conjecture, as completing this otherwise unfinished sentence.

He will be very eager to make friends with me then. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Tell us, if the telling does not cause you any more pain.

Be certain of this, Prometheus: I sympathise with you in your agony not only because I am forced to do so, since we are related but also because there is no one else for whom I have greater respect. 290.

Io Tell me who it was who has clamped your feet like so, in this ravine? Influenced by the Greek play, Prometheus:The Friend of Man, Peter Paul Rubens completed this painting in his studio with collaboration from Frans Snyders, who rendered the eagle. I know this for a fact and try not to stop me taking this path because I am proud to say that Zeus will deliver me this favour and free you from your suffering. 910. Prometheus Yes, I am a pitiful sight to my friends. Xerxes and the Persians gained control of both the Phocis and Boeotia regions of Greece, before finally being defeated by the Greeks in 479 in the Battle of Platea. Try to see some wisdom in the face of your present suffering! Prometheus Still, your tears came too soon and I see you are full of fear, daughters of Oceanus!

Wretched Prometheus, why are you made to suffer like this? 690. 560. Chorus Prometheus your appeal comes to willing ears and so now, with a light foot we will leave our winged throne and the clear ether –the path of the birds- and will come down to the deserted earth so as to hear from beginning to end all of your tribulations. Oceanus I can see this from your own fate, Prometheus. Come now, tell me what we should do because you’ll never be able to say that you have a more faithful friend than me. Let this commitment stay fast in my heart.” (end of prayer), Chorus It is a sweet thing to go through a long life with my hopes and confidence in place and with my spirits high, so, Prometheus, I shudder, when I look at you racked by that endless torture only because you, of your own accord –and without fearing Zeus- love the mortals too much. At the very edge of the mouth and the silt-bar of the Nile, there is a city called Canobus. As the story goes, Aeschylus began writing his first play the very next day. Chorus I am happy to suffer any Fate with Prometheus. Prometheus Why ask with whom? He holds the pole of Heaven upon his groaning back. If you can, please make a small donation using the PayPal or Stripe button below (average donation is £2.50). Still, I don’t have the heart to talk about this, Prometheus, because it must be so painful for you. Zeus, son of Cronos, what sin have I committed that you have shackled me with these pains? What sound is this? But what am I saying? Tell me, what more is there for me to suffer? Kratos Why blame your craft now? After that you will come to a far-off country of swarthy people who live near the waters of the sun, near the river Aethiop. His terrible punishment by Zeus, and his continuing defiance of Zeus in the face of that punishment, remain universal symbols of man's vulnerability in any struggle with the gods. Then I distinguished clearly for them those of the birds with hooked talons that are sinister from those whose nature is auspicious; how they lived, their mutual loves, hatreds and how they pair with one another. Io, you have found a bitter match for your wedding, poor wretch, because, all these things you have just heard –and you must know this well- are barely the beginning of your troubles. They own powerful bows so don’t go near them but, instead, walk close by the roaring, rocky shore and pass right through that country.

You take the bit between your teeth like a newly harnessed colt and you kick and struggle against the reins. Members were sworn to absolute secrecy; however, Aeschylus was accused of divulging cult secrets during the staging of a play. The original text plus a side-by-side modern translation of.
Oceanus Well then, let me be simple-minded, Prometheus. Prometheus But even though I’m shackled in the toughest clamps, the day will come when this King of the Immortals will have a great need of me. These are Zeus’ sharp-beaked hounds and they do not bark. Chorus I shudder when I see the virgin Io, bereft of a man’s love and tormented by her unbearable wanderings, sent to her by Hera. But ah! I have explained to them the meanings of incomprehensible voices and the meanings of cross roads. Aren’t you more afraid of that? The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of 144 pages and is available in Paperback format. The book has been awarded with , and many others. The play begins in the barren wasteland of Scythia. Or is it that you, you, Prometheus, with all your wisdom, don’t know that the uncontrolled tongue brings its own destruction?

Find full texts with expert analysis in our extensive library. My troubled words dash idly against waves of dark calamity. Prometheus You mustn’t think me proud or stubborn if I’m silent. 770.

It also told him that if he neglected to do so, Zeus would send a thunderbolt with a fiery face and destroy his whole race.


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