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3.8 AVERAGE
3.8 AVERAGE
challenging
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
challenging
emotional
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
fast-paced
challenging
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
*Leo pointing at tv meme* I see him! I see Mr. God of War! Look at him go!
I can see why so many people reference and read this play, and sympathize with Prometheus. Fuck the haters, fuck the gods, I like having fire and food and medicine!
I can see why so many people reference and read this play, and sympathize with Prometheus. Fuck the haters, fuck the gods, I like having fire and food and medicine!
Nice one volume edition of the play. Intro is more scholarly than in some of the other editions (the Griffith Cambridge is the best scholarly edition out there).
Keeps to poetic feet with the translation. A couple pages of end notes are useful for the textual side of the volume - explaning where lacuna in the text exists, and her choices in working around them.
Good Further Reading list at the end.
Could have used a bit more time spent on whether Aeschylus wrote this or not.
Read along side the Sommerstein Penguin translation edition (a slight "dumbing down" of his Harvard scholalry edition).
Keeps to poetic feet with the translation. A couple pages of end notes are useful for the textual side of the volume - explaning where lacuna in the text exists, and her choices in working around them.
Good Further Reading list at the end.
Could have used a bit more time spent on whether Aeschylus wrote this or not.
Read along side the Sommerstein Penguin translation edition (a slight "dumbing down" of his Harvard scholalry edition).
An tragedy orphaned of its first and third acts, this play read strangely. Read largely in preparation to read Shelley's Frankenstein.
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Prometeo es encadenado a una roca por orden de Zeus como castigo por haberle entregado el fuego a los hombres. Diferentes deidades lo instan a que se someta a Zeus, pero él se niega confiado en que conoce el futuro del Crónida.
So, again this is a Greek play that I had heard of but never actually read before so I was quite intrigued to see exactly what it was about.
Essentially, it’s Prometheus being chained to the rock as his punishment from Zeus and his complaining to the chorus that his punishment is unfair and that Zeus will get his comeuppance in the future.
There are some brief cameos by Io (who is being punished by Hera because Zeus wanted to sleep with her) and by Hermes (who was sent by Zeus to figure out what Prometheus knows about the prophecy on who will overturn Zeus’ rule on Olympus) but other than that it is Prometheus and the chorus.
Not a massively exciting play but an interesting one to read.
Essentially, it’s Prometheus being chained to the rock as his punishment from Zeus and his complaining to the chorus that his punishment is unfair and that Zeus will get his comeuppance in the future.
There are some brief cameos by Io (who is being punished by Hera because Zeus wanted to sleep with her) and by Hermes (who was sent by Zeus to figure out what Prometheus knows about the prophecy on who will overturn Zeus’ rule on Olympus) but other than that it is Prometheus and the chorus.
Not a massively exciting play but an interesting one to read.