Prometheus Bound

American  

noun

1. a tragedy (c457 b.c.) by Aeschylus.

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Example Sentences

In 1967 at Yale, he brought in Jonathan Miller to direct Robert Lowell’s radical reworking of Aeschylus’ “Prometheus Bound.”

From Los Angeles Times

And when we remember his public fallout, in perfect coincidence with the explosion of Internet news aggregators and the unprecedented appetite for salacious content fueled by social media, it’s hard not to think of Tiger as Prometheus, bound to a rock for his transgression while an eagle comes to pick at his liver every day.

From Golf Digest

As a young woman, Elizabeth Barrett Browning made a melancholy, stuffy, diligently rhyming translation of Prometheus Bound – a play that presumably spoke deeply to this immobilised invalid – and returned to the play 23 years later to create a far more expansive and fluent version.

From The Guardian

He mounted a reading of the Book of Job for people affected by Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Katrina and the Fukushima nuclear accident and has done versions of “Prometheus Bound” for prison guards, including those at Guantánamo Bay.

From New York Times

Romantic-era poets, painters and novelists were haunted by but irresistibly drawn to Prometheus, who was sometimes compared with Napoleon in poems and cartoons of the day, with spin-offs ranging from Blake’s ‘Prometheus Bound’ and Jean-Louis- Cesar Lair’s ‘The Torture of Prometheus’, to Percy Shelley’s play Prometheus Unbound and Mary Shelley’s hugely influential novel, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus.

From Literature