Liber locorum communium
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Prometheus as type
You see me a wretched God in chains,
the enemy of Zeus, hated of all
the Gods that enter Zeus's palace hall,
because of my excessive love for Man.
Aeschylus,
Prometheus bound,
trans. David Grene, ll. 120-124. Cf. also ll. 11, 28-30, and elsewhere.
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