num_pages: 144
description: For readers accustomed to the relatively undramatic standard translations of Prometheus Bound , this version by James Scully, a poet and winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize, and C. John Herington, one of the world's foremost Aeschylean scholars, will come as a revelation. Scully and Herington accentuate the play's true power, drama, and relevance to modern times. Aeschylus originally wrote Prometheus Bound as part of a tragic trilogy, and this translation is unique in including the extant fragments of the companion plays.
language: English
title: Prometheus Bound
titlecomplete: Prometheus Bound
characters: Oceanides, Oceanus (Greek), Bia (Force), Hermes, Io, Hephaestus, Kratos (Power), Prometheus (mythology)
genres: Classics, Drama, Theatre, Plays, Ancient, Greece, Poetry, Literature, Mythology, Fiction
ratings_count: 18021
places: Greece
publisher: Oxford University Press