Author of the Prometheus Bound

C. J. Herington (1924–1997) taught classics at several universities.

• Chapter I. General Considerations: Criteria Chapter II. First Criterion: Minor Stylistic and Metrical Phenomena 1. Unparalleled in Dramatic Poetry a) Choric quatrains b) Formal pattern in line arrangement c) Unparalleled frequency of word and phrase repetition 2. Unparalleled in Tragedy a) Initial rho preceded by a short vowel not constituting a long syllable b) Interlinear hiatus after trimeters without stop 3. Unparalleled in the Extant Plays and Fragments of Aeschylus a) Uses of the definite article b) High proportion of resultative perfects c) High proportion of first-foot anapaests in the trimeters d) High proportion of enjambment e) 1:2 stichomythia f) Metron overlap in anapaestic dimeters g) Dactylo-epitrite meter 4. Confined to (or Predominant in) PV, Su, Oresteiaa) LieblingswÖrterb) “Ellipse” of the first and second persons of εἰμÍ c) ΔεÎ d) πέπΡΩΤΑΙ e) Address formulae f) ὰπΑΛΛΑΓἠ πόνΩν g) εύμενἠς ΒίΑ h) Metrical statistics 5. Particles in the PrometheusChapter III. Second Criterion: Cosmic View and Trilogic Composition 1. Fundamental Difference in Cosmic Background between the Two Groups, Pe-Se and Su-Oresteia-PV2. Trilogic Structure 3. Influence of Old Comedy 4. Appearances of the Gods on Stage 5. Zeus 6. Tormented Wanderer 7. Conclusion Chapter IV. Miscellaneous Items Perhaps Bearing on Date or Authenticity 1. The Third Speaking Part 2. Dramatic Character of the Prologue (1–87) 3. Two Allegedly Sophoclean Features a) The Hero b) Pity and Fear 4. The Monodies 5. Pre-Socratic Echoes in Sutriology, Oresteia, and 6. Sophistic/Rhetorical Echoes in the PrometheusChapter V. RÉsumÉ of the Results of Chapters II, III, and IV Chapter VI. Some Conclusions Appendix A. The Components of the Prometheia Appendix B. External Grounds for Dating the PrometheusBibliography