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Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound
Contributor(s): Ruffell, Ian (Author)
ISBN: 0715634763     ISBN-13: 9780715634769
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
OUR PRICE:   $34.60  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical
Dewey: 882.01
Series: Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 8.4" (0.45 lbs) 176 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
 
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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.