Prometheus Bound

Aeschylus

Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.

  1. Well, why delay and excite pity in vain? Why do you not detest a god most hateful to the gods, since he has betrayed your prerogative to mortals?
Hephaestus
  1. A strangely potent tie is kinship, and companionship as well.
Power
  1. I agree; yet to refuse to obey the commands of the Father; is this possible? Do you not fear that more?