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Prometheus Bound and Other Plays : Prometheus Bound, the Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, the Persians Paperback - 1961
by Aeschylus
- Used
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Details
- Title Prometheus Bound and Other Plays : Prometheus Bound, the Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, the Persians
- Author Aeschylus
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, London
- Date 1961-08-30
- Bookseller's Inventory # GRP16273818
- ISBN 9780140441123 / 0140441123
- Weight 0.27 lbs (0.12 kg)
- Dimensions 7.68 x 5.08 x 0.41 in (19.51 x 12.90 x 1.04 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Greece
- Library of Congress subjects Prometheus (Greek deity), Greek drama (Tragedy)
- Dewey Decimal Code 882.01
Summary
‘Your kindness to the human race has earned you this.
A god who would not bow to the gods’ anger – you
Transgressing right, gave privileges to mortal men’
Aeschylus (525–456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness and servitude in which mankind is kept. The Suppliants tells the story of the fifty daughters of Danaus who must flee to escape enforced marriages, while Seven Against Thebes shows the inexorable downfall of the last members of the cursed family of Oedipus. And The Persians, the only Greek tragedy to deal with events from recent Athenian history, depicts the aftermath of the defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis, with a sympathetic portrayal of its disgraced King Xerxes.
Philip Vellacott’s evocative translation is accompanied by an introduction, with individual discussions of the plays, and their sources in history and mythology.