Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound
[2023-10-12 12:42:18]
"Prometheus's bondage" is not actually written by Aeschylus, but there are also critics who think other people, perhaps his son Euphorion, is also a playwright and a true writer. This argument depends on the portrait of Zeus in the drama, which is a high criticism of the king of God and contradicts the wisdom and justice of Zeus Aeschylus in "Olesia". Since there are only 60 complete screenplays of Aeschylus thought to be written, it is difficult to judge his entire work. However, there are pieces from other plays "Prometheus unbound" and "Prometheus the Fire career" of trilogy. And it shows that what happened in the first drama has grown growing Zeus, laying the foundation of Zeus When he reconciled with the traitor Titan, he eventually found his better nature. Given the dramatic scope of "Orestia" and the concept of evolving justice, I think that it is reasonable to test Aeschylus's similarity to this trilogy.
"Prometheus's bondage" discovered Titan, insulted Zeus and gave a gift of salvation to save the flame attached to distant mountains by passive Hephaestos. Assistant Might and Violence moved his body through a nail, a fable that defined the source of the power of Zeus. The scene of the drama is a series of dialogues between Prometheus and the ancient gods and the ocean (choir consists of daughters of oceanography), a woman who became a cow due to Io, Zeus' attention, and Hermes The secret held by Mises who wanted to know about threatened the power of Zeus. Prometheus (whose name means "seeing the foresight") refused and then was thrown into the underworld to be further punished. In the center of the play is the confrontation between Prometheus' unwavering will and the attractive power of Zeus.
Obviously, this tragedy shows a typical human condition in which physical efforts are trying to break individual's will. The audience is on the dilemma because the audience is destined on the one hand because it is the king of God and on the other hand the savior of mankind and there is no fire gift. In fact, this is clearly the intention of Zeus. So, like Prometheus, spectators are caught between their own rocks and hard places. Fortunately, at the end of the trilogy, Aeschylus played a game to the audience. Even if you know the innovative talent of Aeschylus as a tragic playwright, we can certainly understand the overall story from this play, even without those dramas. For teachers who do not want to compete with "Orestia" as a whole, or who have to work hard for student editors, "Prometheus Bound" is part of Aeschylus and also to understand classical myths It is equally important.
The story of Io is well known, "It is judged from the literature and art of the 5th century" (Griffith, Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound, 189). 10 Aeschylus, "Prometheus Bound", 675-685, edited by Grene and Lattimore. Aeschylus II, 164. I must be aware that Aeschylus uses muops, Aristotle will later distinguish between the two, but the word used in apology and the word oistros are interchangeably called "gadfly" It is used for. In this excerpt, the first word translated as "fly maggot" is mups and the second word comes from oistros (the actual word is oistroplex, meaning "calf chews or bites") . Griffith, Aeschylus: Prometheus bound, see 195. 11 Griffith, Aeschylus: Prometheus bound, 195
In addition to Hesiod's statement, Aeschylus's "Prometheus bondage" is the basis for understanding the prototype Prometheus. Aeschylus has strongly established Prometheus as our painful champion He has raised humanity through his flames from savage to civilization. In addition, Prometheus gave us the hope that Zeus gave us. Prometheus is widely portrayed as a typical liar and culture god, creator of all inventions, and progress in art and science. At the end of the script, Prometheus was still provocative, trapped on his rock and refused to reveal the secret of Thetis marriage yet. The conflict between a painful hero and a tyranny god was solved with the lost p