Prometheus chained to the rock in the Caucasus is condemned, materially, to inaction, but that his indomitable pride of Titan, which declared war and throws miacce against the lord of the universe, is, in effect greek, activities at the highest level. The act belongs to Greek tragedy and suffering. "Who does suffer" here is the fundamental idea that it instills. His soul is not the suffering itself, but the intimate connection between the suffering and acting
(Pohlenz)
Perhaps it was written that the freedom of Europe would not be born after the liberation, but by the plague. Perhaps it was written that, as the release was born from the sufferings of slavery and war, freedom would be born suffering from new and terrible plague brought by liberation. Freedom is expensive. Much more expensive than slavery. And you do not pay or the gold, nor blood, nor with most noble sacrifice, but with cowardice, prostitution, treason, with all the rot of the human soul.
(C. Malaparte)
"Chorus: and the fates who the helm ever stand up?
Prometheus: The Furies avenging, and TriForma Parche
Chorus: What? Of them is less powerful Jupiter?
Prometheus: Not even Jupiter to its fate can escape
(Aeschylus)
The man, growing to gigantic height, is conquered by its own civilization, forcing the gods to ally themselves with him, because in his own wisdom holds the existence and the limits it
(Nietzsche)
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