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The Medicine of Blindness and Human Time in the Prometheus Bound
ABSTRACT:The Prometheus Bound features a conflict between Zeus and Prometheus. Both of these gods represent differing perspectives on and relationships to time. The present-oriented perspective identified with Zeus seeks to freeze current conditions; the future-oriented one identified with Prometheus seeks to overturn present conditions and bring about a different and enduring future. Human beings contrast with both of these perspectives. Blind to their deaths, they live with an open-ended future. This human way of relating to time is possible because of Prometheus’ paradoxical gift of “blind hopes”—a gift which not yet been properly understood.
期刊介绍:
Classical World (ISSN 0009-8418) is the quarterly journal of The Classical Association of the Atlantic States, published on a seasonal schedule with Fall (September-November), Winter (December-February), Spring (March-May), and Summer (June-August) issues. Begun in 1907 as The Classical Weekly, this peer-reviewed journal publishes contributions on all aspects of Greek and Roman literature, history, and society.