Monologue

Io Monologue from Prometheus Bound

From Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus

female · anguished · 1:02 min

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From whence utterest thou the name of my father? Tell me, the woe-begone, who thou art, who, I say, O hapless one, that hast thus correctly accosted me miserable, and hast named the heaven-inflicted disorder which wastes me, fretting with its maddening stings? Ah! ah! violently driven by the famishing tortures of my boundings have I come a victim to the wrathful counsels of Juno. And of the ill-fated who are there, ah me! that endure woes such as mine? But do thou clearly define to me what remains for me to suffer, what salve: (49) what remedy there is for my malady, discover to me, if at all thou knowest: speak, tell it to the wretched roaming damsel.

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Io, tormented by the wrath of Juno, seeks understanding and relief from her suffering, expressing her despair and confusion in a moment of vulnerability.

20s · despair · suffering · isolation · fate · identity

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