(ПРЕ)УСТРОЈУВАЊЕТО НА ПРОМЕТЕЈА: ИСТОРИСКО-ТИПОЛОШКИ ПРЕГЛЕД
(RE)CONSTRUCTING PROMETHEIA: HISTORICAL-TYPOLOGICAL STUDY

Summary/Abstract: The Prometheus Bound is an ancient Greek tragedy, one of the seven that have reached us under the name of the earliest of the three great tragedians, Aeschylus. Its open ending and unresolved central conflict suggest a sequel, and the sequel, in turn, suggests the existence of a narrative tragic trilogy. This possible trilogy, mirroring the name of the Oresteia, is referred to by modern classicists as Prometheia. In addition to the Prometheus Bound, it is assumed that it included two other tragedies containing the name of the Titan in the title: Prometheus Unbound and Prometheus the Fire-Bearer. Over the past two centuries, every attempt to add – or take away – even the smallest detail to this rough outline of the Prometheia has entailed much more effort than progress; this study is a historical-typological summary of the effort. Its outcomes: five trilogies, one dilogy, and a monodrama. Three of the five trilogies (suggested by Welcker, Westphal, and Podlecki) are recombinations of the three most popular Prometheus-titles, while the remaining two, alongside Prometheus Bound and Unbound, bring in some non-Prometheus play (the Heliades according to Bergk, The Women of Aetna according to Droysen/Lloyd-Jones) the proposed Sicilian dilogy (Focke) can apparently do just fine without. Rarely do any of the visionaries of the Prometheia dare to imagine an accompanying satyr play.

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