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The First Scene of the Suppliants of Aeschylus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

J. T. Sheppard
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To explain the meaning of the Prometheus the late Dr. Walter Headlam quoted the famous lines from theAgamemnon:

‘ Sing praise; ’Tis he hath guided, say, Man's feet in Wisdom's way, Stablishing fast for learning's rule That Suffering be her school….’ ‘This,’ he said, ‘is the school in which Prometheus himself is being gradually taught the wise humility; at present he is still in the rebellious stage. And it is with this idea that Io is introduced into the Prometheus Bound; she, too, is an example of the seeming cruelty of Zeus; but it is a blessing in disguise, for she is to be the mother of the blessed Epaphus, and it is a son of Zeus by Alcmena, a descendant of her own, that is to set Prometheus free.’

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , October 1911 , pp. 220 - 229
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1911

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page 222 note 1 XIII. 600B.Google Scholar

page 222 note 2 See a significant passage in Pausanias X. 10. 5.Google Scholar

page 224 note 1 See Headlam on Aesch. Sup. 160 in C.R. Vol. XVI., p. 52, 1902.Google Scholar

page 229 note 1 Notice incidentally (remembering the surprise of Pelasgus at the appearance of the Suppliants 240 sqq., 283 sqq., and the fears of Danaus on that score 504 sqq.) that in 574 sqq. … the chorus have still in mind their identification with 10.