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Æschylos Tragedies and Fragments

Note 194 — PROMETHEUS BOUND

E. H. (Edward Hayes) Plumptre translation

In the Suppliants, Zeus is said to have soothed her, and restored her to her human consciousness by his “divine breathings.” The thought underlying the legend may be taken either as a distortion of some primitive tradition, or as one of the “unconscious prophecies” of heathenism. The deliverer is not to be born after the common manner of men, and is to have a divine as well as a human parentage.

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