Connected Prométhée
See also: Prométhée (homonymy)
Prométhée connected (in Greek old Πρoμηθευς δεσμωτησ / Promêtheus desmôtês ) is a Greek Tragédie traditionally allotted to Eschyle. It belonged to a trilogy devoted to Prométhée whose other parts are known only in fragmentary form ( Prométhée delivered and Prométhée carry-fire ).
Summary
After the rising of Zeus against his/her father Cronos, and the war which followed, Zeus asseoit its power and tiny room to nothing all its opponents: Prométhée, the “philanthropist” with the clean direction of the term (it indeed has crafty one against zeus by giving him the bad share of the sacrifices given to the men the fire, jealously kept by the Gods), undergoes its anger: it is connected by Héphaïstos (wire of Zeus, god of fire and metals) with a rock with the borders of the Earth. The part, entirely static, puts in Prométhée scene vis-a-vis various divine characters, without never delivering a true confrontation between Zeus and the Titan.
The characters of the divine characters are very distinct; all is governed by the force: either it is accepted, or one is opposed to it. The gods divide, followers of the power of Zeus or sympathizing vis-a-vis the suffering of tortured. Eschyle signs an atypical portrait of the gods there, and Zeus is strongly disputed there. Without there to see work revolutionary (the Prométhée connected in the beginning was followed of the Prométhée delivered and the Prométhée carry-fire , which proves that all returned in the order and that Zeus calmed down), the first part of the trilogy on Prométhée offers an approach of the divine world good more negative than that given by the myths and the traditions.
Plan
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prolog : Force, To be able, Héphaïstos; monolog of Prométhée
- parodos and dialogs lyric : Océanides, Prométhée
- first episode : continuation of the dialog between Océanides and Prométhée; Prométhée, Ocean
- interlude choral
- second episode : chorus, Prométhée
- interlude choral
- third episode : Prométhée, Io
- interlude choral
- exodos : chorus, Prométhée; intervention of Hermes