Description: "In the wake of the Olympian gods' clash with the Titans, Zeus punishes his former ally Prometheus for having dared to bring knowledge to humankind. Banished and chained in a desolate landscape, Prometheus, a god himself, suffers cruelly at the hands of gods-knowing full well the torments yet in store. Drawn from the authoritative third edition of the University of Chicago Press's Complete Greek Tragedies series, David Grene's searing translation of the sole surviving play of Aeschylus' Prometheus trilogy is presented here in a stand-alone edition. An introduction by Glenn W. Most and Mark Griffith provides essential information about the play's first production, plot, and reception in antiquity"--
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Aeschylus (c. 525/524-456/455 BCE) was an ancient Greek tragedian who authored an estimated seventy to ninety plays, of which seven survive in their entirety.