Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound (Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy) - Softcover

Ruffell, Ian

 
9780715634769: Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound (Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0715634763 ISBN 13: 9780715634769
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press, 2012

Synopsis

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.

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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).

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Publisher
Bristol Classical Press
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0715634763
ISBN 13 
9780715634769
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
176