Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound Paperback / softback
Part of the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series
Paperback / softback
Description
The play's title figure has long held a central place in the 'libertarian' stream of Western culture, but controversies continue to swirl about the work and its hero.
What are we to make of Prometheus's extravagant claims?
Was he, as he insists, the only force that stood between the human race and extinction? Can Zeus really have been as misanthropic as his adversary paints him?
Are we, in short, to think of Prometheus as a genuine hero, or merely as a megalomaniac rebel without sufficient cause?As for the play itself, the present editor, flying in the face of current orthodoxy, takes the view that the case against Aeschylean authorship has not been established.
But this lingering doubt should do nothing to diminish its stature as a masterpiece of ancient Greek drama.
The volume presents the original Greek text with facing-page translation, commentary and notes.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages, 1 b&w map: 'Io's Journeys'
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:25/10/2005
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- ISBN:9780856684722
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages, 1 b&w map: 'Io's Journeys'
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:25/10/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9780856684722
