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Prometheus and Faust - The Promethean Revolt in Drama from Classical Antiquity to Goethe (Hardcover, New)
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Prometheus and Faust - The Promethean Revolt in Drama from Classical Antiquity to Goethe (Hardcover, New)
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The comparison made between Prometheus and Faust occurs so
frequently in modern scholarship as to seem commonplace. However,
while each figure has been investigated separately, no recent
full-length study has brought the two characters together and
examined the association. The present volume explores the
Prometheus myth from its preliterary origins through treatments in
Greek by Hesiod, Aeschylus, Plato, and Lucian, as well as in Latin
literature and Roman theatricals. The investigation continues into
hitherto unexplored connections with the Greek figure and the magus
and occult scientist types of late antiquity, the Middle Ages, and
Renaissance. The Prometheus and Faust traditions met in literature
and art soon after the emergence of the historical Faustus. The
traditions continued to exist independently through the 16th and
17th centuries, until Goethe began to write a play about each
character. Ultimately Goethe abandoned Prometheus; however, Faust
absorbed much of the Promethean persona.
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