Aeschylus: Prometheus BoundPrometheus Bound is a play beloved of revolutionaries, romantics and rebels, with a fierce optimism tempered by an acute awareness of the compromises, dangers and obsessions of political action. |
Contents
Preface | 6 |
1 Themes Contexts and Receptions | 7 |
2 Gods and Other Monsters | 25 |
3 Technology and Civilisation | 57 |
4 Making a Spectacle | 80 |
5 The Radical Tradition | 105 |
Abbreviations and Guide to Further Reading | 131 |
Notes | 137 |
| 154 | |
Chronology | 169 |
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