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Æschylos Tragedies and Fragments

Note 201 — PROMETHEUS BOUND

E. H. (Edward Hayes) Plumptre translation

The Euhemerism of later scholiasts derived the name from a king Adrastos, who was said to have been the first to build a temple to Nemesis, and so the power thus worshipped was called after his name. A better etymology leads us to see in it the idea of the “inevitable” law of retribution working unseen by men, and independently even of the arbitrary will of the Gods, and bringing destruction upon the proud and haughty.

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