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Prometheus and Bound
Only seven of his estimated seventy to ninety plays have survived into modern times, and there is a longstanding debate about his authorship of one of these plays, Prometheus Bound.
In the Prometheus mythos of Hesiodus and possibly Aeschylus ( the Greek mythos | Greek trilogy Prometheus Bound, Prometheus Unbound ( Aeschylus ) | Prometheus Unbound and Prometheus Pyrphoros ), Prometheus is bound and tortured for giving fire to humanity at its creation.
Prometheus Bound, perhaps the most famous treatment of the myth to be found among the Greek tragedies, is traditionally attributed to the 5th-century BC Greek tragedian Aeschylus.
At the center of the drama are the results of Prometheus ' theft of fire and his current punishment by Zeus ; the playwright's dependence on the Hesiodic source material is clear, though Prometheus Bound also includes a number of changes to the received tradition.
Prometheus Bound also includes two mythic innovations of omission.
In Prometheus Bound, this dynamic is transposed: Prometheus becomes the benefactor of humanity, while every character in the drama ( except for Hermes, a virtual stand-in for Zeus ) decries the Olympian as a cruel, vicious tyrant.
Pseudo-Apollodorus moreover clarifies a cryptic statement ( 1026 – 29 ) made by Hermes in Prometheus Bound, identifying the centaur Chiron as the one who would take on Prometheus ' suffering and die in his place.
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Aeschylus Prometheus Bound Text and Commentary ( Cambridge 1983 ).
As Io tells her own story in Aeschylus ' Prometheus Bound, she rejected his whispered nighttime advances until the oracles caused her own father to drive her out into the fields of Lerna.
The ancients connected Io with the Moon, and in Aeschylus ' Prometheus Bound, where Io encounters Prometheus, she refers to herself as " the horned virgin ", both bovine and lunar.
* In the Greek Tragedy, Prometheus Bound translated by G. M. Cookson, Hephaestus is to bind Prometheus " to the jagged rocks in adamantine bonds infrangible.
* Hesione was an Oceanid who became wife of Prometheus according to both Acusilaus and Aeschylus ( in Prometheus Bound, 555 ).

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