Getty Villa theater specialist Ralph Flores reads the opening lines of Prometheus Bound.
We have arrived at the far limit of the world.
These are the Scythian mountains, desolate and vast.Hephaistos, you must carry out the Father’s will
and bind the criminal to this steep looming rock
with chains of adamant, unbreakable.It was your flower he stole, the bright and dancing fire,
and gave its wonderworking power to mortals.This is the crime for which he now must pay
the price to all the gods, that he may learn
submission to the might of Zeus
and quit his friendship with the human race.—translation by Joel Agee