Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound. Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy

Ian Ruffell  / Bristol Classical Press, 2011

Reviewed by Ian C. Storey, 

...be detected: the ban on Sinodinou’s Prometheus in 1967 because it used the music of Theodorakis; the National Theater of Northern Greece’s production in July 1970 (Herodes Atticus), where Prometheus’...

Frankenstein and Its Classics: The Modern Prometheus from Antiquity to Science Fiction. Bloomsbury studies in classical reception

Jesse Weiner, Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Brett M. Rogers  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

Reviewed by Daniel Cook, 

...by it draw on ancient Greek and Roman literature, philosophy, and myth. Prometheus is the dominant figure throughout, of course, in no small part because Shelley presented her work as...

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

A. J. Podlecki  / Phillips, 2005

Reviewed by Pär Sandin, 

...of Prometheus, (2) “Prometheus in archaic Greece”, (3) “Associated myths”, (4) “Near Eastern parallels”, (5) “Prometheus in fifth-century cult”, (6) “Prometheus philanthrôpos: the fifth-century idea of progress”, (7) the trilogy,...

Prometheus bound: a separate authorial trace in the Aeschylean corpus

Nikos Manousakis  / De Gruyter, 2020

Reviewed by Peter Barrios-Lech, 

...Prometheus Bound? Manousakis, with the help of a variety of computer-aided calculations, shows that Aeschylean authorship of Prometheus Bound is very highly unlikely. Mark Griffith had already made the case...

Tragic papyri: Aeschylus’ Theoroi, Hypsipyle, Laios, Prometheus Pyrkaeus, and Sophocles’ Inachos

Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou  / De Gruyter, 2022

Reviewed by Felice Stama, 

...frr. 24 (= fr. 451s, 24 Radt) e 8 (= fr. 451n Radt)[9]. Originariamente concepito e già pubblicato come articolo in rivista[10] è anche il quarto contributo (“Aeschylus’ Prometheus Pyrkaeus”,...

Ein literarischer Prometheus: Lukian aus Samosata und die Zweite Sophistik. Heidelberger Studienhefte zur Altertumswissenschaft

Manuel Baumbach, Peter von Möllendorff  / Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017

Reviewed by F. Berdozzo, 

Publisher’s Preview Questo volume soddisfa, in maniera egregia, un’esigenza percepita già da lungo tempo negli studi lucianei in Germania, quella cioè di un’introduzione complessiva di buon livello scientifico all’opera del...

Hesiod’s Cosmos

Jenny Strauss Clay  / Cambridge University Press, 2003

Reviewed by Cashman Prince, 

...and Prometheus’ distribution of the ox at the feast at Mekone, C. reads Prometheus as a pretender to Zeus’ throne; Prometheus’ gift of the edible parts of the ox to...

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus. Brill’s Companions to Classical Reception 11

Rebecca Futo Kennedy  / Brill, 2017

Reviewed by Dennis R. Alley, 

...Man of Europe”—Gonda Van Steen Transtextual Transformations of Prometheus Bound in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound : Prometheus’ Gifts to Humankind—Fabien Desset Aeschylus and Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, by...

Hesiod and Classical Greek Poetry: Reception and Transformation in the Fifth Century BCE

Zoe Stamatopoulou  / Cambridge University Press, 2017

Reviewed by Oliver Passmore, 

...studies are Aeschylus’ Prometheus plays and Euripides’ Ion. After briefly surveying the evidence for the composition and performance of the Aeschylean tetralogy of which Prometheus Bound and Prometheus Lyomenos are...

Il Prometeo del Duca. La prima traduzione Italiana del Prometeo di Eschilo (Vat. Urb. Lat. 789). Classics in the Libraries, 1

Aeschylus., Andrea Blasina, Marcantonio Cinuzzi  / Hakkert, 2006

Reviewed by Carmel McCallum-Barry, 

...than one heading. Correction: p. 94 on 1201-1212 (P. V.1020-25, Prometheus’ future destiny); B. identifies these events as part of the third play of the Prometheus trilogy Prometheus Pyrophoros citing...

Qu’est-ce que la mythologie grecque? Folio essais, 598

Claude Calame  / Éditions Gallimard, 2015

Reviewed by Theodor Heinze, 

...Platons Protagoras und einen Vergleich dieser Platonischen Version mit Prometheus’ Darstellung seiner Wohltaten für die Menschen im Gefesselten Prometheus des Aischylos (Vv. 436-506). In der Analyse der Erzählung zeigt sich...

Chaos, cosmos and creation in early Greek theogonies: an ontological exploration

Olaf Almqvist  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

Reviewed by Carolina López Ruiz, 

...role of ritual as a mediating action, focusing on the narrative of animal sacrifice in Hesiod’s Prometheus story. Almqvist argues for a “new theory of sacrifice as a flexible and...

The Politics of Sacrifice in Early Greek Myth and Poetry

Charles H. Stocking  / Cambridge University Press, 2017

Reviewed by Arlene L. Allan, 

...(context and content) and its continued use in ancient Greek practice remained a situation in which patriarchal deference, timē, is contested and awarded. Beginning with the contest between Prometheus and...

Rites of Passage in Ancient Greece

Mark W. Padilla  / Bucknell University Press, 1999

Reviewed by Mischa Meier, 

...the Athenian Community”, pp. 129-147) focuses on the figure of Io in the Prometheus and argues that the connection between Io and Prometheus lies in a rite of passage which...

Favole antiche: Mito greco e tradizione letteraria europea

Davide Susanetti  / Carocci, 2005

Reviewed by Maria Fox, 

...rage of Medea). Then various threads of development, different for each myth, are followed. For example: Prometheus as friend of mankind, Prometheus as ignoble rebel, Prometheus as false friend to...

Donne e Preghiera: Le preghiere dei personaggi femminili nelle tragedie superstiti di Eschilo. Supplementi di Lexis, XXXVIII

Stefano Amendola  / Hakkert, 2006

Reviewed by C. Michael Sampson, 

...the city is saved (p.59). The fourth chapter hinges on a number of contrasts between Suppliants and Prometheus Bound, whose authenticity A. does not call into question.2 In the first...

Dionysalexandros: Essays on Aeschylus and His Fellow Tragedians in Honour of Alexander F. Garvie

Douglas L. Cairns, Vaios Liapēs, Jean Bollack, A. F. Garvie, Βάιος Λιαπής  / Classical Press of Wales, 2006

Reviewed by Janette Auer, 

...80). It is important to explore each of Prometheus’ speeches and to determine how each implies and links with the others. The drama rests on Prometheus’ unyielding support for mortals...

Aeschylean Tragedy. Second edition

Alan H. Sommerstein  / Duckworth, 2010

Reviewed by Oliver Thomas, 

...masks as in subsequent art (p. 31 n.20), and that of Prometheus entering on high then descending by ladder while Prometheus converses with Oceanus (pp. 222-3). Sommerstein’s view of the...

Deadly Powers: Animal Predators and the Mythic Imagination

Paul A. Trout  / Prometheus Books, 2011

Reviewed by Reyes Bertolín Cebrián, 

Trout’s book presents an interesting hypothesis about the origins of myth and storytelling. The author conceives the development of storytelling in the very ancient past as a mechanism of early...

Crossroads to Islam: The Origins of the Arab Religion and the Arab State

Yehuda D. Nevo, Judith Koren, Negev Archaeological Project for the Study of Ancient Arab Desert Cultures.  / Prometheus Books, 2003

Reviewed by Colin Wells, 

Radical revisionism can be helpful even when it’s unsound, if it induces scholars to reassess their comfortable assumptions about the evidence and arguments of a traditional interpretation. To the same...