Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Prometheus BoundISBN13:9781722053802ISBN10:1722053801Author:Morshead, E. D. a. (Translator), Aeschylus (Author)Description:(This is a RePrint) - Prometheus Bound By Aeschylus And Translated Into English Verse By E D A Morshead From The Plays Of Aeschylus The Surviving Dramas Of Aeschylus Are Seven In Number, Though He Is Believed To Have Written Nearly A Hundred During His Life Of Sixty-Nine Years, From 525 B C To 456 B C That He Fought At Marathon In 490, And At Salamis In 480 B C Is A Strongly Accredited Tradition, Rendered Almost Certain By The Vivid References To Both Battles In His Play Of The Persians, Which Was Produced In 472 The Prometheus Bound Is Conspicuous For Its Gigantic And Strictly Superhuman Plot The Agamemnon Is Human, Though Legendary The Prometheus Presents To Us The Gods Of Olympus In The Days When Mankind Crept Like Emmets Upon The Earth Or Dwelt In Caves, Scorned By Zeus And The Other Powers Of Heaven, And-Still Aided By Prometheus The Titan-Wholly Without Art Or Science, Letters Or Handicrafts For His Benevolence Towards Oppressed Mankind, Prometheus Is Condemned By Zeus To Uncounted Ages Of Pain And Torment, Shackled And Impaled In A Lonely Cleft Of A Scythian Precipice The Play Opens With This Act Of Divine Resentment Enforced By The Will Of Zeus And By The Handicraft Of Hephaestus, Who Is Aided By Two Demons, Impersonating Strength And Violence These Agents If The Ire Of Zeus Disappear After The First Scene, The Rest Of The Play Represents Prometheus In The Mighty Solitude, But Visited After A While By A Chorus Of Sea Nymphs Who, From The Distant Depths Of Ocean, Have Heard The Clang Of The Demons' Hammers, And Arrive, In A Winged Car, From The Submarine Palace Of Their Father Oceanus Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date:2018-07-01Weight:0.23 lbsDimensions:0.1'' H x 10'' L x 7'' WNumber of Pages:50Language:English
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Book Title: Prometheus Bound
Number of Pages: 48 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: CreateSpace
Topic: Ancient / Greece
Publication Year: 2018
Item Height: 0.1 in
Genre: History
Item Weight: 5.1 Oz
Author: Aeschylus
Item Length: 10 in
Book Series: The Plays of Aeschylus Ser.
Item Width: 7 in
Format: Trade Paperback
