Prometheus Bound

Aeschylus · c. 460 BCE · Play · Greek · Classical

The Titan who gave fire to mankind is dragged to the edge of the world and nailed to a rock on the orders of a newly installed Zeus. He refuses to give up the secret that could unseat the new regime, and trades prophecy, argument and warning with the visitors who come to the crag. Defiance staged as endurance; the first drama of the punished rebel.

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Lineage

• ↓ Frankenstein
  Mary Shelley · 1818 CE · Novel — influenced by this
• ↓ Prometheus Unbound
  Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1820 CE · Poem — responds to this
• ↓ The Centaur
  John Updike · 1963 CE · Novel — alludes to this

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