Prometheus by Dougherty Carol

Author:Dougherty, Carol.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2011-10-07T00:00:00+00:00

In Hesiod’s poems Prometheus is characterized as clever, smart, and insightful, and his ability to think ahead is implied in the Works and Days through his advice to his oppositely named brother Epimetheus. Yet, Hesiod neither emphasizes Prometheus’ own prophetic powers nor, with the exception of the problematic Hope tucked inside Pandora’s jar, does he include strategies for dealing with the future as part of Prometheus’ legacy to mankind. Aeschylus, however, makes this a key aspect of his Prometheus myth.

Hope, we remember, remained trapped in Pandora’s jar once all the other evils and troubles that came to characterize human existence were released into the world. While Aeschylus omits Pandora from his Prometheus story, he plucks Hope from the jar of evils and gives it a kind of prominence and positive value not present in Hesiod’s version. In his opening conversation with the chorus of Oceanids, hope is the first thing that Prometheus mentions as his gift to mankind:

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