Prometheus Bound

Aeschylus

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

  1. I will tell you plainly all that you would like to know,
  2. not weaving riddles, but in simple language, since it is right to speak openly to friends. Look, I whom you see am Prometheus, who gave fire to mankind.
Io
  1. O you who have shown yourself a common benefactor of mankind, wretched Prometheus, why do you suffer so?