Prometheus Bound: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Prometheus Bound, credited to Aeschylus, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus. (Translated by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.) Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Prometheus Bound is a Greek Tragedy usually attributed to Aeschylus. Jupiter has turned against Prometheus for protecting mankind and has ordered him to be chained to a rock. But Prometheus is comforted by his knowledge of a way to bring about the downfall of Jupiter. This verse translation by Elizabeth Barrett Browning was published in 1851. - Summary by Alan Mapstone Cast List Prometheus: Greg Giordano Strength: Larry Wilson Hephaestus: Algy Pug Oceanus: Beeswaxcandle Io: Inkell Hermes: Alan Mapstone Chorus of Ocean Nymphs: Agnes Robert Behr Editor: Alan Mapstone

Recording facts

• Recording title: Prometheus Bound
• Author credits: Aeschylus
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 6
• Listed recording duration: 1:26:56

Catalogue topics

• greek tragedy

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction and Dramatis Personae — 1:15
2. 01 - Part 1: Strength and Hephæstus — 6:40
3. 02 - Part 2: Prometheus — 16:29
4. 03 - Part 3: Oceanus — 20:14
5. 04 - Part 4: Io — 29:23
6. 05 - Part 5: Hermes — 12:55

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