Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound

by Ian Ruffell

Overview

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.

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472502506
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	12/20/2012
Series:	Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Ian Ruffell is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Glasgow. His main research interest is Greek drama and he has worked most extensively on comedy. His monograph, Politics and Anti-Realism in Athenian Old Comedy: The Art of the Impossible, was published in 2011.
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).

Table of Contents

Preface
Themes, Contexts and Receptions
Gods and Other Monsters
Technology and Civilisation
Making a Spectacle
The Radical Tradition
Timeline
Abbreviations and Select Bibliography
References
Index