1, Prometheus binding
Sisters of the choir came to visit Prometheus. Prometheus told them that he had been kind to Zeus: at that time, the gods clashed and some gods opposed the election of Zeus as king. At the critical moment, it was Prometheus and his mother themis who designed and helped Zeus become king.
After Zeus ascended the throne, he ignored human suffering. Prometheus was very sympathetic to mankind. He taught them all kinds of survival knowledge and skills and stole kindling for them. The narrow-minded Zeus ignored his previous kindness and ordered him to be nailed to a high mountain in the Caucasus.
Oceanus, one of the river gods, came to visit Prometheus. Prometheus advised the river god not to plead with Zeus. He said he knew that one day he would be released. In the face of Prometheus' suffering, the choir said that people all over the world were crying for it.
At this time, Io, the daughter of Inakos, the river god, wandered to the place where Prometheus was crucified. She was jealous of Hera, the queen of heaven, because she ignited Zeus' love. Hera let the gadfly stab her with poison, and kept chasing her, making her constantly flee from one place to another. She asked Prometheus when her suffering would end. The choir asked her to tell her own experience first, and then Prometheus told her her own future.
IO said that she often had hallucinations at home, told her that Zeus was in love with her and lured her out to join Zeus. Io summoned up the courage to tell her father about it, and Inakos sent messengers to ask God what to do. Finally, God instructed that IO must be driven out of the motherland and drifted around, otherwise the angry Zeus would destroy the whole family of the River God.
In this way, Io grew horns on her head, was chased by the gadfly, and embarked on a wandering journey: after Io finished speaking, Prometheus expressed deep sympathy for her suffering. He said Io would continue her long wandering life. She will cross grasslands, wade rivers, climb mountains and swim in the sea, and she will encounter all kinds of dangers during her journey.
Finally, Io will reach the Nile Delta, where he will build a home with Zeus. Among the descendants handed down from Io, there will be a famous hero and a brave archer who will save Prometheus' suffering. At this time, Io's poisonous needle began to attack again, and the painful Io drifted into the distance.
Prometheus said that the result of this marriage would push Zeus off the throne and the throne. When Zeus heard these words, he sent messengers to Hermes to ask Prometheus, asking him to reveal what marriage would make Zeus lose power, or he would be punished more severely.
Prometheus said that he would never reveal the secret unless he untied the chains of shame, so Hermes had to leave angrily. At this time, the earth shook, thunder roared and the sea roared, and a greater disaster was coming to Prometheus.
2. King Oedipus
King Oedipus is based on ancient Greek legends. Legend has it that after Oedipus was born, his biological father, King Raios of Thebes, learned from the Oracle that he would kill his father and marry his mother when he grew up, so he put a wire on his heel and asked his servant to throw the baby into the wild. The servant felt sorry for the innocent child and gave him to a shepherd in Corinth.
King Collins adopted him because he had no son. As an adult, when Oedipus learned from God that he was destined to kill his father and marry his mother, he fled Corinth to avoid God's bad luck, because he thought the king and queen of Corinth were his biological parents.
But Oedipus never imagined that it was this deliberate avoidance that accelerated the pace of his life tragedy. He left his adoptive parents and went to Tupperware. On the way to escape, Oedipus was insulted by a group of passers-by In a rage, he killed four people, including his biological father, Raios, the elderly king of Thebes.
Soon after, Oedipus, with his extraordinary wisdom, got rid of the banshee Sphinx, who hurt the people of Thebes, and was acclaimed as king by the people of Thebes. She married the queen of the former king, his biological mother, and had two children with her. Oedipus thus became a sinner who killed his father and married his mother, but he knew nothing about it.
In order to quell the epidemic plague in Thebes, Oedipus, according to God's instructions, searched for the murderer who killed the former king Laos, and found that the murderer he was looking for was himself, and the fate of killing his father and marrying his mother came to him.
Oedipus' mother Iokaster committed suicide in grief to wash away her sins. Oedipus blinded his eyes in mixed feelings, then exiled himself, left the city of Tebai with his two daughters and wandered around to punish his heinous crimes. To confess.
3. Medea
In Greek mythology, she was the daughter of Eddes, king of Korcz, and the granddaughter of Helius, the sun god. She fell in love with Prince Jason who came to the island to look for golden fleece. In order to help Jason get Korcz's national treasure golden fleece, Medea used her magic to help Jason accomplish the impossible task set by her father, provided that Jason would marry her. After getting golden fleece, Medea and Jason embarked on a journey back to Greece together.
Medea's father heard that she had escaped after stealing golden fleece, and sent his younger brother Prince Abu Siltos to recover her. Medea killed his brother, chopped up his body, divided it into several pieces, and threw it all over the mountain, leaving his father and the chasing officers busy collecting the body to delay the time and leave with Jason and his party.
After Jason returned to China, Medea killed his uncle who usurped the throne. Jason regained the throne, but began to fear Medea's magic and cruelty.
Later, Jason turned from love to hate, and Medea killed her two children. At the same time, she killed Jason's new love with poison clothes and fled from Jason. Jason also died of depression.
It is said that Medea fled to Athens and was protected by theseus's father, Egos. When theseus came to confess his father, Medea was worried that he would do harm to himself and obstruct him, but theseus saw through him. Medea was expelled from Athens again, and she fled to her hometown of Corcas. At that time, her father Ides's throne had been usurped by his younger brother. Medea reached an understanding with her father and used magic to help him regain the throne.
Extended data
Author of three tragedies: Aeschylus was born into an ancient aristocratic family, and spent his youth under the tyranny of Hippocrates (525-5 BC10). At that time, the struggle between Athenian aristocrats and civilians was fierce, and Ulysses was the center of Athenian aristocratic forces.
In 509 BC, Cleisthenes carried out reforms, which enabled Athens to enter a new stage of democratic development. He began to like drama and the poems of Agathocles and Apollo very early. Legend has it that Dionysus personally taught him the art of poetry in his dream. He also played a role in his plays in his early years. At the age of 25, he took part in the poet competition in Athens for the first time, but he didn't win the prize.
Shortly thereafter, the increasingly sharp and fierce contradiction between Greece and Persia led to the famous "Greek-Persian War" in ancient history. He took part in the marathon in the first 490 years, in which his brother was killed. After the destruction of Athens 480 years ago, he participated in the naval battle of Salamis in the Greek fleet. Aeschylus went to Sicily many times, where he met poets Simonides Of Ceos and Pindar.
In 472 BC, he returned to Athens, where his "Persian" was first staged, which was his memory of his wartime experience. The play won the highest prize in the poet's competition. He lost to Sophocles in the first 468 years, but won the highest prize in the 13 Athens Poets Competition in his life.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-three tragedies