First I'm glad to see you back.And let me also warn you that I'm a total history nut when it conserns the god's of myth.....now on to the topic at hand.
Saber Prime wrote: I think you're partly right. There was a Trilligy but out of the originally Trilligy only Bound survived in whole. The rest as you say are only fragments.
Unbound was not wrighten by the same playwright who wrote the original Trilligy. That's easilly appearnt in the wrighting styal. The original play (allthough it may not actully be wrighten by him) was verry "Shaksperian" while Unbound was wrighten in a more modern day English styal.
Unbound allso tells the same story as Bound. Normally a second part in a Trilligy would continue where the last story left off not tell the same story again.
All evidence points to Unbound being another wrighter's interpritation of Bound, a rewright, not a continuation in the Trilligy.
First I'm glad to see you back.And let me also warn you that I'm a total history nut when it conserns the god's of myth.....now on to the topic at hand.
You misunderstood me.I wasnt trying to suggest that all 3 plays were written by the same playwright just that "Unbound" is not really a re-write of "Bound".The complete "Unbound" go's further in the story then the first play and the reasons it is belieaved that "Unbound" contains much of the same writtings from "Bound" is because since it only survived in fragments, portions of the first part were inclued to fill in the gap's by those that retolded, rewrote and translated it from the original language.
As for your claim that "Unbound" was wrighten in a more modern day English style..........thats because you think your reading the original play.
What you have read is a mixed version of
The second Prometheus Unbound published in 1820 and was written by Percy Bysshi Shelley and the original and first Prometheus Unbound that has been attributed to the 5th-century BC Greek tragedian Aeschylus.
There are a few sutlle differences between Shelley's re-wright and the original.....for exsample Shelley's story use's the name Jupiter [Zeus's Roman counterpart] and there's no reconciliation between the character's of Prometheus Jupiter [Zeus] like in the original play.
And the plays have been retold and rewritten by at least a dozen other Greek and Roman authors that would further embellish the Prometheus myth. The most significant detail added to the myth are found in the works of Aesop, Apollodorus, Hyginus, Ovid, Plato, Sappho and Quintus of Smyrna.
As for just "who" really wrote the original play's........it's a hot debate.
The Great Library of Alexandria has the playwrite "Aeschylus" as the auther of all 3 but there are plenty of however, several scholars that doubt Aeschylus' authorship of the drama.
These doub stem the form his portraial of the character of Zeus. The problem is how could the playwright who demonstrated such a reverence toward Zeus in his other works like "The Suppliants" and "Agamemnon" be the same playwright who, in Prometheus Bound,portray's Zeus as a violent tyrant and condems him for it.
such as Hyginus, Apollodorus, and Quintus of Smyrna
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