Comparing Prometheus Bound and Hesiods Prometheus Essay -- Comparison

Prometheus Bound and Hesiods Prometheus Prometheus Bound is rather different from other tragedies in that it is peopled entirely by gods. The play focuses on the story of Prometheus, and we defend sports of this myth in Hesiods famous works. There is reason to think that the writer of Prometheus Bound was not only acquainted with Hesiods version but truly drew on Hesiod directly in this play. This essay therefore aims to record in what ways the author of Prometheus Bound seems to run through drawn from Hesiods version of myth, in what ways he has diverged from it, and what reasons he might have had for devising these changes and innovations. This might therefore highlight any particular emphasis or purpose of Prometheus Bound and what its author might have been trying to direct across. Though there is not space in this essay to controvert the problems of attributing this play, it must be recognised that this ambiguity of authorship and dating makes it crimson more difficult than usual to look at views and purposes behind the play. We dont have any exact dates for Hesiod, but it seems that his poetic activity dates from around the hold out third of the 8th century BC. We find his versions of the Prometheus myth in dickens of his works the Theogony at lines 521-616, and the Works and age, at lines 42-89. The Theogony in general discusses the railway line and genealogies of the gods and the events that led to the establishment of Zeus as their king. The Works and Days is quite varied in content but overall could be expound as giving advice for living a life of honest industry. In the Theogony the story of Prometheus comes as a narrative interlude and aims at explaining the origins of certain institutions ... ...aces, CQ 8 (1989) 42-60 * Frazer, R. M. The Poems of Hesiod (University of Oklahoma Press, U. S. A., 1983) * Griffith, M. Aeschylus Prometheus Bound (Cambridge, 1983) * Most, G.W., Hesiods Myth of the Five (or T hree or Four) Races, PCPS 43 (1997) 104-127 * Scully, J & Herington, C.J., Aeschylus Prometheus Bound (Oxford University Press, New York 1975) * Solmsen, F. Hesiod and Aeschylus (Ithaca, New York, 1949) * Wender, D. Hesiod and Theognis (Harmondsworth, 1973) * West, M. L. Hesiod Theogony and Works and Days (Oxford, 1988) * West, M.L., The Prometheus Trilogy, JHS 99 (1979) 130-48 * Vellacott, P. Aeschylus Prometheus Bound, Supplicants, Seven against Thebes, The Persians (Harmondsworth, 1961) Endnotes 1. Herington (1986) p158-9 2. Solmsen (1949) p136 3. Solmsen (1949) p130 4. Solmsen (1949) p129