Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound

Performance (Video)

  • Reading and discussion at the Center for Hellenic Studies (2020) [YouTube]
  • Cambridge Greek Play, in (ancient) Greek with English subs (2013) [YouTube]
  • Video of a performance at NYU, dir. and starring F. Andolfi (2013) [YouTube]
  • Mid-quality video of a (modern) Greek producation at Epidaurus [YouTube]

 

  • Theatre of War: Post-reading discussion (2018) [YouTube]

English Translations

  • J. Romm, in M. Lefkowitz and J. Romm (eds.), The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, Modern Library (NY, 2016) [Google Books preview]
  • B. Doerries (tr.), All That You’ve Seen Here Is God: New Versions of Four Greek Tragedies (New York, 2015) [Ajax, Philoctetes, Trachiniae; Prometheus Bound]
  • J. Agee, Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound (NY, 2014)
  • D. H. Roberts, Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2012)
  • S. G. Chappell / Timothy Chappell (2012) [online PDF]
  • C. Collard (tr.), Aeschylus: Persians and other Plays (Oxford, 2008) [Persians; Seven against Thebes; Suppliants; Prometheus Bound]
  • F. Raphael and K. McLeish, Six Greek Tragedies [incl. Persians and Prometheus Bound] (London: Methuen, 2002)
  • A. J. Podlecki (ed., tr.), Prometheus Bound (Warminster: Aris and Phillips, 2005) [Review by Sandin in BMCR]
  • E. Hilburn, “Prometheus Bound,” in C. Doria (ed.), The Tenth Muse (Athens, OH: The Ohio University Press, 1980) [available on Questia]
  • R. F. Birnbaum and H. F. Birnbaum, The Prometheus Trilogy [= Prometheus Bound (“Aeschylus”); Prometheus Unbound (around extant fragments); ‘Prometheus Firebearer (original play)] (Lawrence: Coronado Press, 1978)
  • J. Scully and C. J. Heringon, Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Oxford, 1975; repr. 1989)
  • K. McLeish, The Frogs and Other Plays [incl. Prometheus Bound] (London: Longman, 1970)
  • P. D. Arnott, Seven against Thebes and Prometheus Bound (London / NY, 1968)
  • R. Warner, Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus [with Prometheus Unbound by P. B. Shelley] (New York: Heritage Press, 1966)
  • P. Roche (New York, 1964)
  • W. D. Anderson (Indianapolis, 1963)
  • M. L. Burke [with illustrations by J. McCray] (Athens, 1961)
  • “Prometheus Bound,” in E. A. Havelock, The Crucifixion of Intellectual Man (Boston, 1951), pp. 111-81; repr. Seattle, 1968.
  • R. Warner (London, 1947)
  • D. Grene, Three Greek Tragedies in Translation [incl. Prometheus Bound] (Chicago, 1942)
  • R. C. Trevelyan (Cambridge, 1939)
  • L. J. Morison, The Binding of Prometheus (Oxford, 1936)
  • T. G. Tucker (Melbourne, 1935)
  • G. Thomson (ed., tr., comm.) (Cambridge, 1932; repr. NY: Arno Press, 1979)

Adaptations

Greek Texts and Scholarly Commentaries

  • A. J. Podlecki (ed., tr.), Prometheus Bound (Warminster: Aris and Phillips, 2002, 2005) [Review by Sandin in BMCR]
  • G. Thomson (ed., tr., comm.) (Cambridge, 1932; repr. NY: Arno Press, 1979)

Recent Scholarship

  • Ian Ruffell, Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy (London: Bristol Classical Press, 2011) [review by Storey at BMCR]