Prometheus Bound

by Aeschylus, James Scully, C.J. Herington

Paperback, 144 pages

English language

Published Aug. 4, 1989 by Oxford University Press.

ISBN:: 978-0-19-506165-9

(11 reviews)

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.

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XolokReads reviewed Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus

Very little and a whole lot happens in this play

4 stars

I listened to this via Mission Audio. I read somewhere that it is read from an edition from Harvard, but I haven't been able to confirm that. It's a solid story and the play leaves a lot open to a director's interpretation. I can see this ranging from a very basic setup where we hear Prometheus' story told to us to something elaborate where events are mimed out as they are narrated. Both cool.