PROMETHEUS BOUND & OTHER PLAYS (INCL. THE PERSIANS) (TRANS. VELLACOTT)

Aeschylus (525456 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.