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- Zeus noticed Io, a mortal woman, and lusted after her. In the version of the myth told in Prometheus Bound she initially rejected Zeus' advances, until her father threw her out of his house on the advice of oracles.
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Io is an example of Zeus’s power and ability to confine and imprison others through various means and to inflict endless suffering, but she is also the woman from whom Prometheus’s savior will eventually come. “My savior will descend from your womb,” Prometheus says to Io.
There is a suggestion that Prometheus's own fate will mirror Io's and that, after a lengthy procrastination, he will also be reconciled with Zeus. Io's wild thrashing as she is stung by the gadfly contrasts sharply with Prometheus's complete immobility.
Io doesn't seem too clear on the details of what's happened to her, but other sources from Greek mythology help us put the story together. The most likely thing that happened is that it was Zeus who transformed Io into a cow—because he was afraid Hera (his wife) would see what he was up to.
This too is evidence of Zeus’s power and Io’s suffering. She is driven a vast distance alone and without rest from the stinging gadfly. According to myth, Zeus doesn’t turn Io back into a woman until she wanders all the way to Egypt.
how Io moved across it. These details are tokens of how much I understand— they show how my intelligence can see more things than what has been revealed. The rest I will describe for you and her to share, pursuing the same track I traced before. On the very edges of the mainland, 1050 where at its mouth the Nile deposits soil, there is a city ...
Kratos and Bia, for ye twain the hest Of Zeus is done with; nothing lets you further. But forcibly to bind a brother God, In chains, in this deep chasm raked by all storms I have not courage; yet needs must I pluck Courage from manifest necessity, For woe worth him that slights the Father's word.
Next. Io. The ruler of the Olympian gods and the antagonist of Prometheus Bound. Zeus as an actual character never makes it into Aeschylus’s play, but his violent wrath and immense power are present throughout. Zeus orders Prometheus to the top of the Scythian mountains to be bound by chains for all of eternity as punishment for Prometheus ...
