Excerpt from The Prometheus and Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated Into English VerseIn the first place, it has no human personages whatever, nor any direct human interest, appealing only to mere mortal sympathies as in behalf of the suffering mediator, friend, and saviour, who is represented as punished by the superior force of Zeus mainly on account of his philanthropic mood. In the second place, it entirely lacks every thing approaching to exterior action, and, indeed, to action at all, except at the very opening of the plot.Vicissitude there is, indeed, and a directly continuous prog ress toward the final catastrophe of the drama, although that progress is worked out through a train of episodical entrances of persons but slenderly connected with the thread of the piece, and acting the part rather of incidental agents than of characters, in the proper sense of the word.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.