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Prometheus The Trickster: Prophecy, Power, And Deception, Chris Griglack
Prometheus The Trickster: Prophecy, Power, And Deception, Chris Griglack
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
This article interprets Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound through the lens of trickster mythology, arguing that Prometheus functions as an atypical trickster deity whose primary tool is not deception of appearance but foreknowledge of fate. Rather than opposing Zeus through force, Prometheus manipulates divine power by controlling access to prophecy, transforming knowledge itself into a means of resistance. His gift of fire to humanity and his refusal to disclose the prophecy of Zeus’s downfall are shown to be parts of a single strategy: the calculated use of foreknowledge to constrain a tyrannical ruler. In this reading, prophecy operates less as an immutable …
A Wrath That Remembers: A Feminist Companion To Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Mary Iris Allison
A Wrath That Remembers: A Feminist Companion To Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Mary Iris Allison
Scripps Senior Theses
This project is a feminist translation and companion to Aeschylus' Agamemnon, which includes detailed footnotes and references to secondary authors that provide a feminist reading of the text.