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1. www.sparknotes.com › drama › prometheusPrometheus Bound Lines 561–906 Summary & Analysis | SparkNotes

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   Prometheus explains that Io's wanderings are the reason for the names Bosporus and Ionian Sea, which the audience was familiar with. Io's descendants, in turn, rule over the city of Argos, and spawn the hero Heracles.

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2. www.litcharts.com › lit › prometheus-boundIo Character Analysis in Prometheus Bound | LitCharts

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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.

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   When Io appears, Prometheus tells her about the progress of her descendants. He also continues to demonstrate his own importance as he describes her previous travels in order to prove that he knows what he is talking about in his prophecies.

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   The strength of Hephaistos’s chains is part of Zeus’s power over Prometheus, while Prometheus himself holds power over Zeus in the form of his foresight and knowledge of Zeus’s supposed fate at the hands of his son: Io’s descendant and Prometheus’s savior, Heracles.

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   Get him away from me, O Earth, that herdsman with a thousand eyes— the very sight of him fills me with terror! Those crafty eyes of his keep following me. Though dead, he is not hidden underground, 700 [570] but moves out from the shades beneath the earth. and hunts me down and, in my wretched state, drives me to wander without nourishment.

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   DRAMATIS PERSONAE. POWER: divine agent of Zeus. FORCE: divine agent of Zeus. HEPHAESTUS: divine son of Zeus, the artisan god. PROMETHEUS: a Titan. CHORUS: daughters of Oceanus. OCEANUS: a god of the sea. IO: daughter of Inachus. HERMES: divine son of Zeus. [In a remote mountainous region of Scythia.

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   How are Prometheus and IO bound together?

   • The following conversation between them reveals first, the prophesy of Zeus's downfall, which would profit both Prometheus and Io, and then the prophesy that Io's descendant will free Prometheus. In other ways, too, Prometheus and Io are bound together by fate. The former is a victim of Zeus's hatred, while the latter is a victim of his love.

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   Who is Io in Prometheus & Io?

   • Prometheus and Io. Hamilton takes this story from the Greek poet Aeschylus and the Roman poet Ovid. She returns to Prometheus, who is still chained to the rock in the Caucasus. A white heifer approaches him, talking wildly with a girl’s voice, and Prometheus recognizes her as a maiden named Io.

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   What does Prometheus say to Io?

   • Io asks what reason she has to go on living, but Prometheus says that she should be glad not to have his fate, since he cannot die and must suffer much longer. He tells her, however, that a son greater than him will depose Zeus. Asked if Zeus can avoid this, Prometheus answers that this may happen only if a descendant of Io frees him.

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   How does Io influence Prometheus's prophecy?

   • Clearly Io influences his prophecy. Io's presence angers Prometheus, and he prophesies the future that most appeals to him at that moment. Prometheus wants Zeus's downfall, and he says that this downfall will occur. Io's entrance, then, leads to a change in Prometheus's character.

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   Prometheus and Io. Hamilton takes this story from the Greek poet Aeschylus and the Roman poet Ovid. She returns to Prometheus, who is still chained to the rock in the Caucasus. A white heifer approaches him, talking wildly with a girl’s voice, and Prometheus recognizes her as a maiden named Io.