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Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound
Author(s): Ian Ruffell (Author)
- Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
- Publication Date: 10 May 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 176 pages
- ISBN-10: 0715634763
- ISBN-13: 9780715634769
Book Description
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.
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.Editorial Reviews
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About the Author
Ian Ruffell is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Politics and Anti-Realism in Athenian Old Comedy: The Art of the Impossible (2011).
