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Æschylos Tragedies and Fragments

Note 205 — PROMETHEUS BOUND

E. H. (Edward Hayes) Plumptre translation

It is noticeable that both Æschylos and Sophocles have left us tragedies which end in a thunderstorm as an element of effect. But the contrast between the Prometheus and the Œdipus at Colonos as to the impression left in the one case of serene reconciliation, and in the other of violent antagonism, is hardly less striking than the resemblance in the outward phenomena which are common to the two.

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