Prometheus Bound

Name: Prometheus Bound
Brand: Christianaudio
Availability: InStock
Author: Aeschylus
ISBN: 9781596442382

Author: Aeschylus, E.H. Plumptre

Narrator: TBD

Unabridged: 1 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Mission Audio

Published: 07/01/2010

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

When a jealous Zeus discovers that the compassionate Titan, Prometheus, has introduced the gift of fire to liberate mere mortals from oppression and servitude, he has Prometheus bound to a rocky prison in the Scythian desert, where the god discloses the reason for his punishment – And in one brief sentence learn the whole at once—All arts among the human race are from Prometheus. Prometheus Bound is one of only seven surviving plays by the prolific Athenian playwright, Aeschylus. Born into a noble family in 525 BC, Aeschylus is credited with having introduced dialogue into the Greek drama, and indeed is a father of modern theater.

About Aeschylus

Aeschylus (c. 525â€“456 BC) was the earliest of the three great tragic playwrights of ancient Greece whose work has survived to the twenty-first century. He fought bravely in the Battle of Salamis, which inspired his first surviving play, The Persians. According to legend, he died in Sicily when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Persephone's Pomegranate on March 17, 2024

To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day—to you, thief of fire, I speak. Daphne was turned into a laurel tree as she ran away from Apollo. Clytie, consumed with love for the sun god Helios, gazed at t......more

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs on December 16, 2016

Zeus is such a tyrant; he just wanted to keep all that power to himself. So when the noble hearted Prometheus gave a little bit of it to man, Zeus was rather angry; thus, he punishes Prometheus rather severely: he is chained to rock where an eagle eats his liver, only for it to grow back overnight f......more

Goodreads review by Joshua Nomen-Mutatio on December 19, 2010

I'm shocked to see that only one of my Goodreads friends has read this play. This is my favorite work of ancient Greek literature. The story has some pretty deep meaning. It's really the inverse of the Fall From Grace. Instead of the human desire for knowledge resulting in the perverse punishment of......more