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Prometheus Bound. Aeschylus. Gottfried Hermann (Editor). Lipsiae. 1852.

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Funding provided by The Annenberg CPB/Project.

Current edition Experimental

Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) (Greek) (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (6)
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 574-608 focus
Προμηθεὺς δεσμώτης Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 574-608 focus
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 589 focus
ΠΡΟΜΗθΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΡΟΜΗθΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 589 focus
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 589 focus
πῶς δ᾽ οὐ κλύω τῆς οἰστροδινήτου κόρης
τῆς Ἰναχείας; ἣ Διὸς θάλπει κέαρ
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ἔρωτι, καὶ νῦν τοὺς ὑπερμήκεις δρόμους
Ἥρᾳ στυγητὸς πρὸς βίαν γυμνάζεται.
Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 589 focus
Translations (8)
Prometheus Bound Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 575-605 focus
Prometheus Bound. (OCR draft) Experimental (Prometheus Bound.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 589 focus
How can I fail to hear the damsel that is phrenzy-driven by the hornet, the daughter of Inachus, who warms the heart of Jupiter with love, and now, abhorred of Juno, is driven perforce courses of exceeding length?
PROMÉTHÉE ENCHAINÉ (OCR draft) Experimental (PROMÉTHÉE ENCHAINÉ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 589 focus
le nom que tu prononces, le nom de mon père ? Réponds à l'infortunée : qui donc es-tu,
misérable, pour saluer la misérable en termes si vrais, pour donner son nom au mal issu
Prometheus Chained (OCR draft) Experimental (Prometheus Chained. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 589 focus
Hear'ſt thou the voice of this lamenting virgin?
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For ſuch ſhe is, tho' in that form diſguisd.
Eschilo, Prometeo legato: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Prometeo legato: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 589 focus
Io non udire la figliuola d'Inaco
punta dall'estro? Ella d'amore avvampa
il cuor di Giove: e adesso, in odio ad Era,
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per infinito corso a forza è spinta.
Aeschylus, Prometheus vinctus: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Prometheus vinctus: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 589 focus
Audis clamorem cornubovis puellæ
English (E. D. A. Morshead, 1908) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Morshead translation. Wikisource transcription; speech corresp and card milestones aligned to Smyth perseus-grc2.) — 589 focus
Hear Zeus or not, I hear and know thee well,
Daughter of Inachus; I know thee driven,
Stung by the gadfly, mazed with agony.
Ay, thou art she whose beauty fired the breast
Of Zeus with passion; she whom Hera's hate
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Now harasses o'er leagues and leagues of land.
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1854; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylos. Deutsch in den Versmaßen der Urschrift. Stuttgart: Hoffmann, 1854. Native Donner line citations, Smyth card correspondence, selected textual readings and metrical facsimiles. Remaining OCR differences and unattributed reading notes are documented in the linked review inventory.) — 589 focus
Wie hört' ich nicht, die wilden Wahnsinns Stachel treibt,
Die Inachide, die Kronions Herz entflammt
In Lieb', und nun die endlos lange Bahn, verfolgt
Vom Hasse Hera's, ruhelos durchirren muß.
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Commentary

Critical apparatus to Prometheus Bound (OCR draft) (Latin and Greek critical apparatus to Gottfried Hermann's 1852 edition of Prometheus Bound.) focus

589-590. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-671

NA: affert Stephanus Byzantius in
Ἰναχία
.

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Ἰναχείας:
Ἰναχείας
M. Vit. Lips. Aug. Vind. 1. 3. Bess.
Ἰναχίας
G. Vind. 2. 4. Colb. 1. Cantabr. 1. 2.
Ἰναχείης
edd. vett. et Stephani Byz. cod. Rehdigeranus,
Ἰναχίης
eiusdem Vossianus et Aldina,
Ἰναχόης
Perusinus.

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θάλπει κέαρ:
θάλπῃ
G.
κέρας
Vossianus et Aldina Stephani Byz.

592. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-674

στυγητὸς:
στυγητῶς
Vit.

592. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-675

πρὸς βίαν:
πρὸς βίειν
G.

592. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg003-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-676

γυμνάζεται:
γυμνάζεται
Μ.
γυμανάζεται
Lips. et in margine
γρ. βιάζεται
, quod etiam Vind. 2. 4. in margine habent, in textu Arund. Cantabr. 2.

English commentary on Prometheus Bound (OCR draft) (N. Wecklein, translated by F. D. Allen. Ginn & Company, 1893; compared with the 1891 printing. Printed commentary pages 31–144. Provisional alignment and unresolved OCR are visibly flagged.) focus

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561-886. Third Episode. Io and Prometheus. The myth of Io is connected with that of Prometheus by the person of Heracles, the libera- tor of Prometheus, who is descended from paphus, the son of Zeus and Io (see on 774). The appearance of Io therefore prepares the way for the introduction of Heracles in the Προ- μηθεὺς λυόμενος. But the immediate significance of this scene consists in the present relation of Zeus and Io. Io appears as innocent and yet perse- cuted; her sufferings, superficially considered, put Zeus in the worst possible light. Accordingly the in- dignation of Prometheus rises more and more, till at last, carried away by passion, he vaunts his secret in such terms that the interposition of Zeus becomes inevitable. So the transition to the catastrophe is pre- pared. The geographical part of this episode, with its description of marvels, like the scene of Heracles in the Προμηθεὺς λυόμενος (see below, Frg. VII. and VIII.), doubtless had a peculiar charm for the Athenians of the period. On the origin of the myth of Io, see Introd. p. 9, footnote. Io appears as a horned maiden (588, 674; so indi- cated by her mask). In early Greek art, especially in vase-paintings, she has the figure of a cow outright. On the throne of the Amyclaean Apollo, a work of the sculptor Bathycles (about Ol. 60), Hera was represented as glaring at Io, 'who is already a cow' (Paus. iii. 18. 7). On an archaic black-figured vase of the Munich collection (No. 573; see Panofka, Argos Panoptes, plate 5), Argus is seen, seated on the ground, a fero- cious figure with long hair and beard, and a huge eye in his shaggy breast; he holds in his hand a long cord, attached to the horns of a cow. Near by stands Hermes, grasping the cord near the horns with his left hand, and about to draw his sword with his right. Argus's dog
stands at bay in front of his master. Through the influence of this trag- edy, Io came later to be depicted in art as a maiden with horns. So, for instance, on a red-figured vase of the Berlin Museum (Panofka, l.c., plate 3). The stinging gadfly' of the legend (cp. Suppl. 306 BΑ. τί οὖν ἔτευξεν ἄλλο δυσπότμῳ βοΐ; ΧΟ. βοη- λάτην μύωπα κινητήριον, Verg. Georg. iii. 147 cui nomen asilo Ro- manum est, oestrum Graii vertere vocantes), which is mentioned in Io's narrative, 675 be- low, had also to be omitted in the scenic representation. The difficulty was met by a figurative conception of οἶστρος; the maddening sting was interpreted as the reminiscence of the crafty eye of Argos (567). — On account of the unusual manner of Io's entrance and exit, the anapaests which commonly accompany the ar- rival and departure of a personage are here and at 877 given to the actor, not to the chorus. So above, at the entrance of the chorus (120 ff.).

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589. οἰστροδινήτου : cp. Suppl. 573 πολύπλαγκτον ἀθλίαν οἰστροδόνητον ᾿Ιώ, 17 τῆς οἰστροδόνου βοός, Od. xxii. 299 βόες ὡς ἀγελαῖαι, τὰς μέν τ᾽ αἰόλος οἶστρος ἐφορμηθεὶς ἐδόνησεν.

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590. τῆς Ἰναχείας : see on 164. Διὰ τοῦ τὸν πατέρα αὐτῆς ὀνομάσαι ἐνέ- φηνε τὸν μάντιν, ὡς καὶ παρ' Ομήρφ (Od. xi. 100) ὁ Τειρεσίας ῾ νόστον δίζηαι μελιηδέα, φαίδιμ᾽ Ὀδυσσεῦ,' Schol.

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591 f. δρόμους γυμνάζεται : an ex- tension of the accusative of the inner object (= γυμνάζειν τινὰ γυμνασίαν ὑπερμήκων δρόμων). Cp. Soph. Αi. 1107 τὰ σέμν᾽ ἔπη κόλαζ᾽ ἐκείνους, Ο. Τ. 340 ἔπη, ἃ νῦν σὺ τήνδ᾽ ἀτιμάζεις πόλιν. Krüger II. § 46, 7, 1; H. 716 a.