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Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes

Aeschylus

Book Overview: 

"Prometheus Bound" is the only complete tragedy of the Prometheia trilogy, traditionally assumed to be the work of Aeschylus. Jupiter has turned against Prometheus for protecting mankind and has ordered him to be chained to a rock. But Prometheus is comforted by his knowledge of a way to bring about the downfall of Jupiter.

"Seven Against Thebes" In this, the only extant tragedy from Aeschylus' trilogy about the House of Oedipus, Thebes is under siege from Polynices, a former prince of Thebes. After King Oedipus left his city and cursed the princes, Polynices and his brother, Eteocles, decided to rule alternately, switching at the end of every year. However, at the end of his year as king, Eteocles refused to turn power over to his brother and exiled him, fulfilling his father's curse that the two brothers could not rule peacefully. In the action of the play, Polynices and a group of Argive soldiers are attacking Thebes so that he can take his place as ruler. Eteocles must combat both the foreign forces outside the walls and the crazed, frightened women within. Note: The ending of this play is suspect. The lines Antigone and Ismene's entrance to the end may have been added later, either after Sophocles' Theban plays became popular or in the Middle Ages.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .ns seasonable to proclaim this; but it must be shrouded in deepest concealment; for it is by keeping this secret that I am to escape from my ignominious shackles and miseries.

Ch. Never may Jupiter, who directs all things, set his might in opposition to my purpose: nor may I be backward in attending upon the gods at their hallowed banquets, at which oxen are sacrificed, beside the restless stream of my sire Ocean; and may I not trespass in my words; but may this feeling abide by me and never melt away. Sweet it is to pass through a long life in confident hopes, making the spirits swell with bright merriment; but I shudder as I behold thee harrowed by agonies incalculable.... For not standing in awe of Jupiter, thou, Prometheus, in thy self-will honorest mortals to excess. Come, my friend, own how boonless was the boon; say where is any aid? What relief can come from the creatures of a day? Sawest thou not the powerless weakness, nought better than a dream, in w. . . Read More

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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

پرومته... ای دور اندیش...آتشت را ببر
دوباره دست به سرقتی دیگر بزن.... آتش را از آدمیان سپنجی، این خدایان نو رسیده بستان.

پرومته...تو دوستدار آدمیان بودی یا دشمنشان؟ این موهبت بود که بدیشان دادی یا که افسون بلا؟
پرومته...آتشت را بردار. تو دوراندیش خدایان بودی... تو خود میدانستی با بخشیدن آتش چه بر سرت

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

پرومته: هرگز گمان مدار که از ارادهٔ زئوس بهراسم. بیزارم از آن که به درگاه وی زاری کنم تا شاید مرا از این بند برهاند.

کف و جیغ جنون آمیز تماشاچیان یونانی، که از به زبان آمدن حرف دلشان توسط قهرمانشان که به‌ناحق به زنجیر کشیده شده، به هیجان آمده اند.

این نمایشنامه که پنج قرن قبل از میلاد نوشته شده، ماجرا

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

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