Online Great Books Podcast

Trent and Hambrick discuss Aeschylus' "Prometheus Bound."     Thoughts and questions about the book. Prometheus gives humanity “hope” Consider the significance of this to human beings. Is it right or wrong to oppose ultimate power? Can man judge the world by his own ethical standards? If so, who or what is the arbiter? Can human autonomy and divine rule by reconciled? Prometheus has been compared to Job, in the Bible. Job famously complained of his situation, but never defied God, Prometheus does. Which is the better path? Notice the personification of human attributes in Might and Violence as characters. Violence says nothing. Is there any significance to this omission?