Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound

Ian Ruffell

ISBN 10: 0715634763 / ISBN 13: 9780715634769

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB, 2012

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Prometheus Bound is a play beloved of revolutionaries, romantics and rebels, with a fierce optimism tempered by an acute awareness of the compromises, dangers and obsessions of political action. This companion sets the play in its historical context, explores its challenge to authority, and traces its reception from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Many scholars have disputed its Aeschylean authorship, but it has proved the most influential of tragedies outside academia. Marx's favourite tragedy, Prometheus Bound is also a foundational text for the genre of science fiction through its influence on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In its open-eyed celebration of technology and democracy, it is the tragedy for the modern age.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0715634763
• ISBN 13: 9780715634769
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 223 grams

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Synopsis

Prometheus Bound is a play beloved of revolutionaries, romantics and rebels, with a fierce optimism tempered by an acute awareness of the compromises, dangers and obsessions of political action.
This companion sets the play in its historical context, explores its challenge to authority, and traces its reception from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Many scholars have disputed its Aeschylean authorship, but it has proved the most influential of tragedies outside academia.

Marx's favourite tragedy, Prometheus Bound is also a foundational text for the genre of science fiction through its influence on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In its open-eyed celebration of technology and democracy, it is the tragedy for the modern age.

About the Authors

Ian Ruffell is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Politics and Anti-Realism in Athenian Old Comedy: The Art of the Impossible (2011).

Thomas Harrison is Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews, UK. His publications include Divinity and History: the religion of Herodotus (2000), The Emptiness of Asia: Aeschylus' Persians and the history of the fifth century (2000); as editor Greeks and Barbarians (2002) and the Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome (2006).