Prometheus Bound Aeschylus

1. ^ 'The climate of opinion has certainly changed since my undergraduate days the fifties when only those studying Prometheus as a special option ever heard that its authenticity had been questioned, and this was presented as a curiosity of scholarship and a dreadful aberration from the plain truth.';[4] 'Ancient scholarship from the Hellenistic period onwards had no doubts about Prometheus Bound's Aeschylean authorship... this silence is not decisive.. Modern anxieties about the reliability of the ascription to Aeschylus stem from nineteenth-century scholarship, which, particularly in Germany, was keen to spot where plays had been modified or reworked by a later hand.. In the twentieth century, critics recognized that the oddities of the Prometheus Bound could not be localized and introduced the idea that the play was not by Aeschylus at all'[5][6]
2. ^ 'the majority of classical scholars still accept the Aeschylean authorship of the play (which was not questioned in antiquity).';[7] 'The vast majority of scholars are in no doubt that Prometheus is entirely the work of Aeschylus.'[8]
3. ^ 'I should stress that the discovery tomorrow of a scrap of papyrus, confirming Aeschylus as author, would in no way astonish me. We know too little to be certain about anything (Griffith 1977, p. xi)
4. ^ 'With limited evidence available to us for comparison (less than one-tenth of Aeschylus' oeuvre) we cannot hope for certainty one way or the other.' (Griffith 2007, p. 34)

Citations

1. ^ Flintoff 1986, pp. 82–91.
2. ^ Ruffell 2012, pp. 14–18, 18.
3. ^ Herington 1973–1974, p. 665.
4. ^ West 2015, p. 54.
5. ^ Ruffell 2012, p. 14.
6. ^ a b Griffith 2007, p. 32, n.103.
7. ^ Conacher 1980, p. 21.
8. ^ Taplin 1989, p. 460.
9. ^ Manousakis 2020.
10. ^ Barrios-Lech 2021.
11. ^ Taplin 1989, p. 240.
12. ^ Conacher 1980, pp. 32–33.
13. ^ Taplin 1989, pp. 240–241.
14. ^ Prometheus Bound.
15. ^ Griffith 2007, p. 76-78 and 280.
16. ^ a b Solmsen 1995, pp. 124–134.
17. ^ Solmsen 1995, p. 125.
18. ^ Lamberton 1988, pp. 90–104.
19. ^ Manousakis 2020, p. 28.
20. ^ Manousakis 2020, p. 29.
21. ^ Zuntz 1983, pp. 498–499.
22. ^ Pattoni 1987.
23. ^ West 1979, pp. 130–148, 130.
24. ^ West 2015, pp. 65–67.
25. ^ Schmid 1929.
26. ^ a b Conacher 1980, pp. 142–174.
27. ^ West 2015, pp. 168–171.
28. ^ Herington 2015.
29. ^ West 2015, p. 65.
30. ^ DeVries 1993, pp. 517–523.
31. ^ Theatricalia.
32. ^ Aeschylus, transl. Kerr 2005.
33. ^ Inverne 2005.
34. ^ Boehm 2013.
35. ^ Behrens 2013.