Who then is to release you against the will of Zeus? PrometheusIt is to be one of your own grandchildren. IoWhat did you say? A child of mine will release you from your misery? PrometheusThe third in descent after ten generations. IoYour prophecy is not easy to understand. PrometheusYes, so do not seek to learn the full extent of your own sufferings. IoDo not offer me a favor and then withdraw it. PrometheusI will present you with one or other of two tales. IoWhich two? Set them forth and offer me the choice. PrometheusI am making the offer: choose whether I shall reveal the sufferings still in store for you or the one who will be my deliverer. ChorusConsent to bestow on her one of these favors, and on me the other; do not deny me the tale. Tell her about her further wanderings;tell me who will deliver you—for I would like to know this. PrometheusWell, since you are bent on this, I will not refuse to proclaim all that you still crave to know. First, to you, Io, will I declare your much-vexed wandering, and may you engrave it on the recording tablets of your mind.