Prometheus Bound is an Ancient Greek tragedy. In antiquity, it was attributed to Aeschylus, but now is considered by some scholars to be the work of another hand, and perhaps one as late as c. 430 BC. Despite these doubts about its authorship, the play's designation as Aeschylean has remained conventional. The tragedy is based on the myth of Prometheus, a Titan who defies the gods and gives fire to mankind, acts for which he is subjected to perpetual punishment.
“For stubborness, if one be in the wrong,
Is in itself weaker than naught at all.”
Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 1012–1013 (tr. G. M. Cookson)
“Since it most profits that the truly wise
Should seem not wise at all.”
Source: Prometheus Bound, line 385 (tr. Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
“True marriage is the union that mates
Equal with equal.”
Source: Prometheus Bound, line 890 (tr. G. M. Cookson)
“Easy, whoever out of trouble holds his
Foot, to admonish and remind those faring
Ill.”
Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 263–265 (tr. Henry David Thoreau)
“If I grieve,
I do not therefore wish to multiply
The griefs of others.”
Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 345–346 (tr. Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
