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Prometheus: Prometheus Bound
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Perhaps the most famous treatment of the Prometheus myth can be found in the Greek tragedy Prometheus Bound -- traditionally (but uncertainly) attributed to the 5th-century BC Greek tragedian Aeschylus. The drama is likely the first play of the otherwise non-extant Prometheia trilogy. At the center of the drama are Prometheus' theft of fire and his subsequent punishment by Zeus; in this, Aeschylus' dependence on the Hesiodic source material is clear. The Prometheus Bound ... includes, however, a number of changes to the received tradition. Some of these changes are rather minor. For instance, rather than being the son of Iapetus and Clymene -- and hence, Zeus' cousin -- Prometheus becomes the son of Gaea -- and Zeus' uncle.
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Prometheus Bound is an Ancient Greek play. It is traditionally attributed to Aeschylus, but is now considered by some scholars to be the work of another hand, perhaps one as late as the 4th century BC.
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Prometheus Bound ... includes two mythic innovations of omission. The first is the absence of Pandora's story in connection with Prometheus' own. Instead, Aeschylus includes this one oblique allusion to Pandora and her jar that contained Hope (252): "[Prometheus] caused blind hopes to live in the hearts of men." Second, Aeschylus makes no mention of the sacrifice-trick played against Zeus in the Theogony.[6]
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Zeus sent Heracles to free Prometheus from the rock, but required that Prometheus still be bound to the rock for the rest of eternity. A link of the chain he had been bound with was set with a chip of the rock and Prometheus was required to carry it with him always. Men ... created rings with stones and gems set into them to commiserate with him and to honor Prometheus for the actions he had taken on their behalf.
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On a rock in that mountain, Prometheus 1 was kept bound for many years. And every day an eagle swooped on him and devoured the lobes of his liver, which grew by night as much as the eagle had devoured during the day. Some say that this eagle (which some say ate his heart, not his liver) was the offspring of Typhon and Echidna, but others affirm that Hephaestus fashioned it. Medea is said to have used in her sorcery a Caucasian herb of great potency, sprung from the gore that dropped from the liver of Prometheus 1. She is ... said to have used a charm, called 'the charm of Prometheus' that anointed on the body (along with other rites) bestowed invulnerability.
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