Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus
Channel: The Center for Hellenic Studies
Date: 2020-07-01

A reading and discussion of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound (translated by Elizabeth Barrett Browning). Kareem Badr, Sarah-Marie Curry, Tim Delap, Ronan Melomo, Evelyn Miller, and Paul O’Mahony perform select scenes, with Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) and Joshua Billings (Princeton University) leading the discussion. Reading Greek Tragedy Online is presented by the Center for Hellenic Studies, the Kosmos Society, and Out of Chaos Theatre. 

For more information about outreach opportunities through the Reading Greek Tragedy Online project, contact outofchaosplays@gmail.com. To support Out of Chaos Theatre, visit https://fundrazr.com/b1oWw3?ref=ab_6ACAcc.

Text available at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prometheus_Bound,_and_other_poems/Prometheus_Bound.

Scene selections:
Selection 1 - Strength and Hephaestus
Selection 2 - Io, Chorus, Prometheus
Selection 3 - Prometheus, Hermes, Chorus

Credits:
Hephaestus - Kareem Badr
Chorus - Sarah Marie Curry
Prometheus - Tim Delap
Hermes  - Ronan Melomo
Io  - Evelyn Miller
Strength - Paul O’Mahony

Director - Liz Fisher

More information about the cast and featured speakers is at https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/7081.

Suggested further reading:
1) "Technology Won't Save Us. Why Promethean Problems Can't Have Promethean Solutions" by Richard Hutchins in Eidolon:
https://eidolon.pub/technology-wont-save-us-1342a1d8163d

2) Ruffell, Ian A. 2012. Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound. London: Bloomsbury. 

3) "Prometheus' Toolbox" in Andrienne Mayor in Lapham's Quarterly:
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/technology/prometheus-toolbox