At a glance:
- Author: Aeschylus
- First Published: 1777
- Type of Work: Greek Tragedy
- Genres: Drama, Tragedy
- Subjects: Mythology or myths, Legends, Gods or goddesses, Heroes or heroism, Fire, Greek or Roman times, Greece or Greek people
- Locales: Greece, ancient, Argos, ancient, Scythia, ancient
Prometheus has given fire and useful arts to humanity. For this, and for not revealing to Zeus which among his consorts will give birth to the son that destroys him, Zeus orders his henchmen Force and Violence and the god Hephaestus to chain Prometheus to a rock. Prometheus’ punishment reveals Zeus’s insecurity as founder of the new Olympian dynasty.
Io, a nymph who is another victim of Zeus, appears in the form of a heifer. To avoid discovery of his affair with Io, Zeus had transformed her thus, but his wife Hera had known of the seduction and sent a stinging gadfly to pursue...
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