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3 unusual facts about Prometheus Bound


Prometheia

To the extent that modern scholars postulate the existence of such a trilogy by a single author, the consensus holds that it comprised Prometheus Bound, Prometheus Unbound, and Prometheus the Fire-Bringer, in that order.

Unlike the Oresteia, only one play from this trilogy—Prometheus Bound—survives.

Prometheus Bound

That is, how could the playwright who demonstrated such piety toward Zeus in (for example) The Suppliants and Agamemnon be the same playwright who, in Prometheus Bound, inveighs against Zeus for being a violent tyrant?



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