Prometheus Bound, 9781590178607
Paperback
God vs. rebel: Titan chained for humanity, defying divine power.

Prometheus Bound

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  • Paperback

    100 pages

  • Release Date

    14 April 2015

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Summary

Prometheus Bound: A Titan’s Defiance

In a sparkling new translation by Joel Agee, Prometheus Bound, one of the most unique and bewildering of the Greek tragedies, is a classic battle of the gods, perfect for fans, students, and scholars of ancient drama alike.

Prometheus Bound is the starkest and strangest of the classic Greek tragedies, a play in which god and man are presented as radically, irreconcilably at odds. It begins with the shock of hammer blows …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781590178607
ISBN-10:1590178602
Author:Aeschylus, Joel Agee
Publisher:New York Review Books
Imprint:New York Review Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:100
Edition:Main
Release Date:14 April 2015
Weight:139g
Dimensions:202mm x 8mm x 127mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“Prometheus’s rebellion is the rebellion of life against inertia, of mercy and love against tyranny, of humanity against cruelty and arbitrary violence.” –Thomas Merton “Joel Agee

“Prometheus’s rebellion is the rebellion of life against inertia, of mercy and love against tyranny, of humanity against cruelty and arbitrary violence.” —Thomas Merton“Joel Agee has found exciting ways to vivify the speeches with apparently scrupulous fidelity to sound. In this English, the poetry slashes like modern verse and the direct address boasts a blunt immediacy that exhorts us to consider our own issues with the State, with individualism and obedience, with the larger consequences of war and despoilment. It blows away the dated rhetoric of such predecessors as Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Lowell.” —Myron Meisel, The Hollywood Reporter

About The Author

Aeschylus

Aeschylus (525 bc-456 bc), the first of ancient Greece’s major dramatists, is considered the father of Greek tragedy. He is said to have been the author of as many as ninety plays, of which seven survive.

Joel Agee is a writer and translator. He has received several prizes, including the Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin in 2008 and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize for his translation of Heinrich von Kleist’s verse play Penthesilea. He is the author of two memoirs-Twelve Years- An American Boyhood in East Germany and, more recently, In the House of My Fear. His translation of Prometheus Bound was produced at the Getty Villa in 2013. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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