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 | Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, The Persians (Penguin Classics) (Reprint Edition) by Philip Vellacott (Translator), Aeschylus Philip Vellacott Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1961 ISBN-10: 0-14-044112-3 / 0140441123 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044112-3 / 9780140441123 Aeschylus (525 456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In" Prometheus Bound" the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness and servitude in which mankind is kept. | |