

Prometheus Bound
Author: Aeschylus, E.H. Plumptre
Narrator: TBD
Unabridged: 1 hr 12 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Mission Audio
Published: 07/01/2010
Author: Aeschylus, E.H. Plumptre
Narrator: TBD
Unabridged: 1 hr 12 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Mission Audio
Published: 07/01/2010
Aeschylus (c. 525–456 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.
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
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
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