In this play, a speech that describes a race that “heard sounds, but could not listen” and lived in holes like ants also lists mantic techniques like watching the flight of “crook-clawed” birds. Scholars such as Margalit Finkelberg have tried to untangle the baffling geography of this play, which places its setting both near Arabia and north of the Amazons and the Bosporus. Nymphs aboard winged ships and a god riding a griffin appear in this play, whose leading actor may have originally spoken his lines from behind a giant wooden dummy that is dragged onto the stage by personifications of Strength and Violence named Kratos and Bia. The protagonist of this play prophesies Io’s future but refuses to reveal his foreknowledge of his enemy’s downfall, despite the urgings of a chorus of Oceanus’s daughters. For 10 points, name this play attributed to Aeschylus in which the title titan is shackled to a mountain. ■END■
ANSWER: Prometheus Bound [or Promētheús Desmṓtēs; or Prometheus Vinctus]
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