Aeschylus Prometheus Bound 129

Anna Swanwick (Translator)

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By whom despoiled of his tyrannic sway?

Prometheus Bound. Aeschylus. Anna Swanwick (Translator). London. 1886.

Sponsored by University of Leipzig.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

Current edition Experimental

Prometheus Bound (OCR draft) (English) (Prometheus Bound. Anna Swanwick, 1886.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (7)
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 128-194 focus
Προμηθεὺς δεσμώτης Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 128-195 focus
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 128 focus
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 128 focus
ΠΡΟΜΗθΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΠΡΟΜΗθΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 128 focus
Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης (OCR draft) Experimental (Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 128 focus
μηδὲν φοβηθῇς· φιλία
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γὰρ ἥδε τάξις
πτερύγων θοαῖς ἁμίλλαις
προσέβα τόνδε πάγον, πατρῴας
μόγις παρειποῦσα φρένας.
κραιπνοφόροι δέ μ' ἔπεμψαν αὖραι·
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κτύπου γὰρ ἀχὼ χάλυβος
διῇξεν ἄντρων
μυχόν, ἐκ δ᾽ ἔπληξέ μου
τὰν θεμερῶπιν αἰδῶ·
σύθην δ' ἀπέδιλος ὄχῳ πτερωτῷ.
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Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 128 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.)) — 128-195 focus
Prometheus Bound. (OCR draft) Experimental (Prometheus Bound.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 128 focus
Dread thou nothing; for this is a friendly band that has come with the fleet rivalry of their pinions to this rock, after prevailing with difficulty on the mind of our father. And the swiftly-wafting breezes escorted me: for the echo of the clang of steel pierced to the recess of our grots, and banished my demure-looking reserve; and I sped without my sandals in my winged chariot.
PROMÉTHÉE ENCHAINÉ (OCR draft) Experimental (PROMÉTHÉE ENCHAINÉ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 128 focus
Ne crains rien : c'est une troupe amie 1 que
des ailes, luttant de vitesse, ont amenée à ce rocher. Mes paroles ont, à grand peine, triomphé du vouloir d'un père, et, rapides, les vents m'ont portée. Car les chocs bruyants du fer, pénétrant au fond de mon antre, ont chassé de moi la
Prometheus Chained (OCR draft) Experimental (Prometheus Chained. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 128 focus
Forbear thy fears: a friendly train f
On buſy pennons flutt'ring light,
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We come, our ſire not aſk'd in vain,
And reach this promontory's height.
The clanging iron's horrid ſound
Reecho'd thro' our caves profound;
And tho' my cheek glows with ſhame's crimſon dye,
140
Thus with unſandal'd foot with winged ſpeed I fly.
Eschilo, Prometeo legato: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Prometeo legato: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 128 focus
Ah!, quale odo d'augelli
novo strepito? L'ètere sibila
145
sotto i battiti fitti dell'ali.
M'è terror tutto ciò che s'appressa!
Aeschylus, Prometheus vinctus: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Prometheus vinctus: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 128 focus
Nihil time, amica eſt hæc caterua,
Alarum celeribus congreſsuibus
135
Acceſsit hoc saxum, paternas
Vix perſuadens mentes.
Volucres uerò me miserunt aure.
Reſonantis enim ſonus chalybis subijt antrum,
Et exterruit meum uerecundum pudorem,
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In Scythiam discalceatus curru alato ueni.
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.) — 128 focus
Ah, fear us not! as friends, with rivalry
Of swiftly-vying wings, we came together
Unto this rock and thee!
With our sea-sire we pleaded hard, until
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We won him to our will,
And swift the wafting breezes bore us hither.
The heavy hammer's steely blow
Thrilled to our ocean-cavern from afar,
Banished soft shyness from our maiden brow,
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And with unsandalled feet we come, in wingèd car!
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.) — 128 focus
O fürchte Nichts! Freundlichen Sinnes kam die Schaar hier
Mit der Schwingen raschem Wettflug
Zu den Felshöhen heran, nachdem wir
Den Vater kaum flehend erweicht.
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Eilender Lüfte Geleit' entführt' uns.
Denn dröhnend scholl Eisengeklirr
In meiner Kluft heimlichsten Raum,
Und trieb die Scham schreckend vom ernsten Auge:
Ich eilt' unbeschuht in dem Fluggespann her,
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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

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ποίοιν:
ποίοιν
postremis tribus litteris in litura M.
ποίοις
Par. E.
ποίοισιν
Ven. 1.

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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780. Cp. Eur. Phoen. 951 τοῖνδ᾽ ἑλοῦ δυοῖν πότμοιν τὸν ἕτερον· ἢ γὰρ παῖδα σῶσον ἡ πόλιν. – ἑλοῦ γὰρ ἤ: ...ἤ in indirect question, as in Homer, for the common εἰ... ἤ, to express sharp contrast of the alter- natives (δυοῖν θατέρῳ). Cp. Cho. 890 εἰδῶμεν ἢ νικῶμεν ἢ νικώμεθα, Soph. Ο. C. 80 οἵδε γὰρ κρινοῦσί σοι ἢ χρή σε μίμνειν ἢ πορεύεσθαι πάλιν, Eur. Med. 492 οὐδ᾽ ἔχω μαθεῖν ἢ θεοὺς νομί- ζεις τοὺς τότ᾽ οὐκ ἄρχειν ἔτι ἢ καινὰ κεῖσθαι θέσμι᾽ ἀνθρώποις τὰ νῦν. See Krüger II. § 65, 1, 3. – πόνων τὰ λοιπά: cp. 634. - The stichomythy ends with a speech of two verses.