Prometheus Bound
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| Title: | Prometheus Bound |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Aeschylus, James Scully, C. John Herington |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Mythology, Greek |
| Categories: | DRAMA / Ancient & Classical |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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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| ISBN: | 9780195061659 9780195019346 9780199771820 9780199840465 |
