Hesione

Role: wife of Prometheus · First appears: Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Scene 3

Life events

• Prometheus took Hesione as his wife in marriage.(Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Scene 3)
  • With: Prometheus
  • “when I sang wedding hymns around thy bath, And at thy bridal bed, when thou did'st take In wedlock's holy bands One of the same sire born, Our own Hesione, Persuading her with gifts As wife to share thy couch.”

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Scene 3

• married with Prometheus “This lesson have I learnt Beholding thy sad fate, Prometheus! Other strains Come back upon my mind, When I sang wedding hymns around thy bath, And at thy bridal bed, when thou did'st take In wedlock's holy bands One of the same sire born, Our own Hesione, Persuading her with gifts As wife to share thy couch.”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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