Prometheus Bound Resources
Websites
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This website provides a complete translation of Aeschylus's play. One cool thing: it uses the Greek names of the characters Power (Kratos) and Violence (Bia).
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This website provides another translation of Aeschylus's play. This time, Power is called Strength, and Violence is called Force.
Movie or TV Productions
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Here's an animated retelling of the story of Prometheus and Pandora from Hesiod's epic poem the Theogony—one of Prometheus Bound's sources.
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Also known as Prométhée, The Legend of Prometheus (1908) is an early French film adaptation of the Greek legend.
Historical Documents
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This ancient sculpture depicts the alleged author of Prometheus Bound. He looks… extremely serious.
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This image shows a tattered copy of Aeschylus's comic play The Net-Pullers. Pretty cool that plays like Prometheus Bound were preserved throughout the millennia, even it does look like it's been afflicted with a terrible disease.
Video
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In 2006, Trinity High School put on Prometheus Bound. Yep, while everyone else in the country was doing Grease and South Pacific.
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Okay, this is pretty cool: a professional theater company doing Prometheus Bound. In ancient Greek.
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State Senator Clay Davis from HBO's The Wire shows off his knowledge of Aeschylus—such as it is. (Hint: ESS-kuh-luss.)
Audio
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Io and Prometheus share a tender moment in Panayoti Karousos, an opera about Prometheus by a Greek-Canadian composer.
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Daniel Cornelius rocks out with an instrumental guitar track inspired by Aeschylus's play.
Images
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Prometheus having his liver eaten by an eagle, painted by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). Love it.
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Ancient Greek black figure pot showing Prometheus… getting his liver eaten by an eagle.