Prometheus Bound was accepted without question in antiquity as the
work of Aeschylus, and most modern authorities endorse this
ascription. But since the nineteenth century several leading
scholars have come to doubt Aeschylean authorship. Dr Griffith here
provides a thorough and wide-ranging study of this problem, and
concludes: 'Had Prometheus Bound been newly dug up from the sands
of Oxyrhynchus... few scholars would regard it as the work of
Aeschylus.' After a preliminary assessment of the external
evidence, Dr Griffith examines minutely the idiosyncrasies of
metre, dramatic technique, vocabulary, syntax and expression to be
found in the play, applying the same tests to other plays of
Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides in order to provide a control
for his methods. In his final chapter he discusses how the
conditions surrounding the ancient transmission and cataloguing of
texts may have led to the ascription to Aeschylus.
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