Cosmology and its Elements in Prometheus bound
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This article explores some ideas of pre-socratic thought present in Aeschylus’ plays, especially those concerning cosmology and its elements. The idea of the Aeschylus dramaturgy, in particular Prometheus vinctus, as a nexus between both pre-Socratic and the political and philosophical thought at the Fifth Century, is developed in this article. If we accept that this tragedy was written by Aeschylus (cf. Solmsen, 1995:X; Saïd, 1985: 9-12; Conacher, 1980: 141-174), so that the drama is manifested as a space in which the confrontation of two modes of thinking cosmology results in an original understanding of the tragic and the becoming of the cosmos.
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