Prometheus Bound (Bevan 1902)/The Persons

by Aeschylus

Layout 2

 

THE PERSONS

Prometheus.

Kratos (Strength) and Bia (Violence).

Hephaistos.

Okeanos.

Io, the daughter of Inachos, King of Argos.

Hermes.

The Chorus is of the daughters of Okeanos.

The Scene is among the mountains at the extreme end of the earth, near the River Okeanos.

 

["It is to be understood that he does not make Prometheus to be bound in the Caucasus, as the common story has it, but on the verge of Okeanos, in Europe, as may be gathered from the things said to Io." Ancient Scholiast.]