[f1]
Classical Museum, No. XV. p 1.
[f2]
BUCK. (Introduction, p. xiii.) has very aptly compared here the
position of Antigone, in the well-known play of that name, and the
half-approving, half-condemning tone of the Chorus in that play.
[f3]
The most remarkable passages of the ancients where reference is made to
the _Prometheus Unbound_ of Æschylus are:--CICERO, Tusc. II. 10;
ARRIAN. Periplus Pont. Eux. p. 19; STRABO, Lib. I. p. 33 and IV.
182-3; PLUTARCHUS. vit. Pompeii, init.; ATHENÆUS. XV. p. 672, Cas.
[f4]
"Veniat Æschylus non poeta solum, sed etiam Pythagoreus. Sic enim
accepimus. Quo modo fert apud eum Prometheus dolorem, quern excipit _ob
furtum Lemnium_."--_Tusc. Quæst_. II. 10, _Welcker; Trilogie_, p. 7.
[f5]
"_Chorus consilietur amicis._"--HORACE.
[f6]
On the stage, of course, her transmutation can only be indicated by the
presence of a pair of ox horns on her virgin forehead.
[f7]
ἡ ποικιλείμων νύξ. _Buntgewandige_--SCHOE. "_Various-vested
Night._"--COLERIDGE, in a Sonnet to the Autumnal Moon.
[f8]
ἀιθέριον κίνυγμα.
[f9]
Saturn the father of Jove.
[f10]
"And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face
of the earth, both man and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls
of the air: for it repenteth me that I have made him."--GEN. vi. 7.
[f11]
The Sea of Azof.
[f12]
"Of all the things that breathe the air, and creep upon the Earth,
The weakest thing that breathes and creeps on nurturing Earth is Man."
HOMER'S ODYS. xviii. 130.
[f13]
_i.e._ Delphi.--See Schol. to Iliad II. 519.
[f14]
Rhea's bosomed sea--the Hadriatic.
[f15]
The Ionian sea.
[f16]
The Danaids, daughters of Danaus, who colonized Argos from Egypt. This
forms the subject of the next play--the Suppliants.
[f17]
See the Agamemnon, Note 15.
[f18]
Compare Odyssey, I. 32.