Summary and analysis of the play by Aeschylus.

Enjoying Prometheus Bound , by Aeschylus Ed Friedlander MD erf@uhs.edu The beautiful fables of the Greeks, being proper creations of the imagination and not of the fancy, are universal verities. What a range of meanings and what perpetual pertinence has the story of Prometheus! -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays Prometheus stole fire and gave it to the human race. For this, he was bound to a ...

Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus translated by Henry D. Thoreau PERSONS OF THE DRAMA KRATOS and BIA, (Strength and Force) HEPHAISTUS, (Vulcan) PROMETHEUS CHORUS OF OCEAN NYMPHS OCEANUS IO, Daughter of Inachus HERMES KRATOS and BIA, HEPHAISTUS, PROMETHEUS KR. We are come to the far-bounding plain of earth, To the Scythian way, to the unapproached solitude. Hephaistus, orders must have thy attention, ...