Of the Prometheus trilogy of Aeschylus, only the first play, Prometheus Bound, and some fragments of the second survive. This work has been the subject of many interpretations, yet it has received much less psychoanalytic attention than the Oedipus plays of Sophocles or even the Oresteia of Aeschylus, perhaps because the Prometheus plays deal with preoedipal material. There is, however, much in these plays to interest the analyst, for they concern the development of an individual who accepts and promotes the emotional, social, and psychological order of the "law of the father." This new order is necessary for the oedipal conflict to take place and to prepare the way for genitality. In Prometheus Bound, Prometheus is the son of the goddess Gaia and thus the brother of Kronos. In the war between Zeus and Kronos, Prometheus fights with Zeus against his brother Titans when the latter will not accept his advice. After the defeat of Kronos, Zeus proposes to destroy humanity and to create a