Monologue

Pr Monologue from Seven Against Thebes

From Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus

male · defiant · 1:52 min

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Why at what should I be terrified to whom it is not destined to die? (CH: Yet perchance he will provide for thee affliction more grievous than even this.) Let him do it then, all is foreseen by me. (CH: They that do homage to Adrasteia are wise.) Do homage, make thy prayer, cringe to each ruler of the day. I care for Jove less than nothing; let him do, let him lord it for this brief span, e'en as he list, for not long shall he rule over the gods. But no more, for I descry Jove's courier close at hand, the menial of the new monarch: beyond all (doubt) he has come to announce to us some news. (Enter.) MERCURY. Thee, the contriver, thee full of gall and bitterness, who sinned against the gods by bestowing their honors on creatures of a day, the thief of fire, I address. The Sire commands thee to divulge of what nuptials it is that thou art vaunting, by means of which he is to be put down from his power. And these things, moreover, without any kind of mystery, but each exactly as it is, do thou tell out; and entail not upon me, Prometheus, a double journey; and thou perceivest that by such conduct Jove is not softened.

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40s · defiance · power · fate · betrayal

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