Strength

Family: Gods · Role: agent of Zeus · First appears: Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Scene 1

Life events

• Zeus ordered Hephaestus, Strength, and Force to bind Prometheus to a rock.(Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Scene 1 · 📍 Caucasos)
  • With: Zeus Prometheus Hephaestus Force
  • “But Zeus being wroth with Prometheus for this deed, sent Hephæstos, with his two helpers, Strength and Force, to fetter him to a rock on Caucasos.”
• Hephaestus, Strength, and Force fastened Prometheus in adamantine chains.(Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Scene 1 · 📍 Skythia)
  • With: Hephaestus Force Prometheus
  • “Lo! to a plain, earth's boundary remote, We now are come,—the tract as Skythian known, A desert inaccessible: and now, Hephæstos, it is thine to do the hests The Father gave thee, to these lofty crags To bind this crafty trickster fast in chains Of adamantine bonds that none can break;”

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Scene 1

• with Zeus (Strength is identified as Zeus's helper and agent.) “Zeus being wroth with Prometheus for this deed, sent Hephæstos, with his two helpers, Strength and Force, to fetter him to a rock on Caucasos.”
• with Prometheus (Strength helps lead the chained Prometheus.) “Enter HEPHÆSTOS, STRENGTH, and FORCE, leading PROMETHEUS in chains”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.