AESCHYLUS VI
— Allen J. Romano, allenjromano@gmail.com
Week 6: Aeschylean-ism
Prometheus Bound
after 479 BCE, before 429
484 BCE
Aeschylus First Victory
472
Persians
468
Sophocles' First competition
?463
Suppliants
467
Seven Against Thebes
458
Oresteia
1.1 Myths of Prometheus
560-550 BCE
Cole, 1920
1.2 Staging Prometheus
mechane
2.1 Aeschylus vs. Aeschylean
Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way (1930)
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Chorus
Zeus, who sets mortals on the path to understanding, Zeus, who has established as a fixed law that “wisdom comes by suffering.” But even as trouble, bringing memory of pain, drips over the mind in sleep, [180] so wisdom comes to men, whether they want it or not. Harsh, it seems to me, is the grace of gods enthroned upon their awful seats.
– Agamemnon, 179ff
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Chorus
Zeus, who sets mortals on the path to understanding, Zeus, who has established as a fixed law that “wisdom comes by suffering.” But even as trouble, bringing memory of pain, drips over the mind in sleep, [180] so wisdom comes to men, whether they want it or not. Harsh, it seems to me, is the grace of gods enthroned upon their awful seats.
– Agamemnon, 179ff
pathei mathos
