Capitolo 9
the unknown world. Then Prometheus partially reveals to the maritime young girl
his/her secret and the mysterious cause of the hate of Zeus against him--a
it causes that would benefit to launch the tyrant from his/her power. So deadly
it is this secret, those Zeuses want, in the error of centuries, is forced to
reconcile with Prometheus, to escape dethronement. Finally,
Hermes, the messenger of Zeus appears with fresh threats that him
you/he/she can extort the mystery from the Enormous one. But Prometheus is fixed,
challenging the tyrant and his/her envoy, although already the lightning
it is flashing, the thunder to roll, and sky and sea are mixing them
fury. Hermes nobody can say more; the maritime nymphs resolvedly refuse
retires, and you wait for their decree. In this accident of the world, Prometheus
you launch his/her ending challenge against Zeus, and among the lightnings and
stones smashed that you/they are submerging his/her companions and he, he/she speaks
his/her last word, "_It is unjust_!"
Some spectacular representation of this end owes, it is clear,
you/he/she has likewise roused intense understanding with the Enormous ones and the nymphs. If,
however, the succession-play you/they had survived to us, we was conceivably able
you/he/she has found and another and less intolerable solution you/he/she is realized. The
you call _Zeus_, in Greek as that of _God_, in English he/she understands
very different perspectives of the divine personality. The Zeus in the _Prometheus_
it has in common few but the name with the Zeus in the first choir
of the _Agamemnon_, or in Suppliant _The Maidens_ (the ll. 86-103): and
parallel reflections will give us a lot of food for thought. But, in some
case, allowed us to understand that the _Prometheus_ is not a human play: with
the possible exception of Me, every character in him is an immortal
being. It is not as a boast, but as a fact, that Prometheuses it declares,,
as against Zeus (l. 1053), that "me at least Him it will never give
death."
A theological and amazing play of which you/he/she has been lost two-bystander has