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The Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus

byAeschylus
76 pagesHardcovernewOct 2022

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Prometheus Bound is the starkest and strangest of the classic Greek tragedies, a play in which god and man are presented as radically, irreconcilably at odds.

It begins with the shock of hammer blows as the Titan Prometheus is shackled to a rock in the Caucasus.

This is his punishment for giving the gift of fire to hum

Specifications

ISBN-13
9781016541435
Author
Aeschylus
Format
Hardcover
Pages
76
Condition
new
Published
27 October 2022

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