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Chapter 4: Prometheus and the First Men

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♠ Gomperz, p. 41 – Fragments of Philodemos cited according to T. Gomperz, Herkulaniske Studien 2. Leipzig 1866.

Philodemos p. 306 R – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta 3, ed. S. L. Radt. Göttingen 1985.

♠ Σ PD 167 – Scholia to Aischylos, Prometheus Desmotes (Prometheus Bound) –  – The Older Scholia on the Prometheus bound, pp. 99-100, ed. C. J. Herington. Leiden 1972.

Σ Is 8.57b – Scholia to Pindar, Isthmian OdesScholia vetera in Pindari carmina, 3, p. 273, ed. A.B Drachman. Leipzig 1927.

Σ Ecl 6.42 – Servius, Scholia to Vergil, Eclogues – Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii Bucolica et Georgica Commentarii, pp. 72-73, ed. G. Thilo. Leipzig 1881.

Latin Text

Aischylos fr 369 R – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta 3, p. 426, ed. S. L. Radt. Göttingen 1985.

A mortal woman from a seed molded of clay (Transl. E. Bianchelli)

♠ PD 231-36Aischylos, Prometheus Desmotes, (Prometheus Bound)

he immediately assigned to the deities their several privileges and apportioned to them their proper powers. But of wretched mortals he took no notice, desiring to bring the whole race to an end and create a new one in its place.  Greek Text

Aischylos fr 281a R – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta 3, p. 380-83, ed. S. L. Radt. Göttingen 1985.

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