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英文名著3000 本 PROMETHEUS BOUND by Aeschylus Characters in the Play 460 BC Kratos Bia Hephaestus Prometheus Chorus of the Oceanides Oceanus Io Hermes Mountainous country, and in the middle of a deep gorge a Rock,towards which KRATOS and BIA carry the 1 英文名著3000 本 gigantic form OF PROMETHEUS.HEPHAESTUS follows dejectedly with hammer, nails, chains, etc. KRATOS Now have we journeyed to a spot of earth Remote-the Scythian wild, a waste untrod. And now, Hephaestus, thou must execute The task our father laid on thee, and fetter This malefactor to the jagged rocks In adamantine bonds infrangible; For thine own blossom of all forging fire He stole and gave to mortals; trespass grave For which the Gods have called him to account, That he may learn to bear Zeus tyranny And cease to play the lover of mankind. HEPHAESTUS 2 英文名著3000 本 Kratos and Bia, for ye twain the hest Of Zeus is done with; nothing lets you further. But forcibly to bind a brother God, In chains, in this deep chasm raked by all storms I have not courage; yet needs must I pluck Courage from manifest necessity, For woe worth him that slights the Fathers word. O high-souled son of them is sage in counsel, With heavy heart I must make thy heart heavy, In bonds of brass not easy to be loosed, Nailing thee to this crag where no wight dwells, Nor sound of human voice nor shape of man Shall visit thee; but the sun-blaze shall roast Thy flesh; thy hue, flower-fair, shall suffer change; Welcome will Night be when with spangled robe She hides the light of day; welcome the sun Returning to disperse