Editing Prometheus Bound (section)

==Reception and influence==
''Prometheus Bound'' enjoyed a measure of popularity in antiquity. Aeschylus was very popular in Athens decades after his death, as [[Aristophanes]]' ''[[The Frogs]]'' (405&nbsp;BC) makes clear. Allusions to the play are evident in his ''[[The Birds (play)|The Birds]]'' of 414&nbsp;BC, and in the [[tragedian]] [[Euripides]]' fragmentary ''[[Andromeda (mythology)|Andromeda]]'', dated to 412&nbsp;BC. If Aeschylean authorship is assumed, then these allusions several decades after the play's first performance speak to the enduring popularity of ''Prometheus Bound''. Moreover, a performance of the play itself (rather than a depiction of the generic myth) appears on fragments of a Greek vase dated c. 370–360 BC.).{{sfn|DeVries|1993|pp=517–523}}

In the early 19th century, the [[Romanticism|Romantic]] writers came to identify with the defiant Prometheus. [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] wrote [[Prometheus (Goethe)|a poem]] on the theme, as did [[George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron|Lord Byron]]. [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] wrote a play, ''[[Prometheus Unbound (Shelley)|Prometheus Unbound]]'', which used some of the materials of the play as a vehicle for Shelley's own vision.