The Myth of Prometheus in Hesiod and Aeschylus

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https://doi.org/10.34624/agora.1.43416

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The myth of Prometheus, Hesiod, Theogony, Works and Days, Aeschylus, Prometeùs Desmótes

Abstract

This study analyzes the Hesiodic myth and the Aeschylean tragedy of Prometheus with the aim of highlighting the elements common to both sets of texts and thus showing how this tragedy regains full meaning and complete coherence when read in light of this perspective opened by the Hesiodic poems Theogony and Works and Days in the mythological tradition of Greek poetry.

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2026-09-18

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