PROMETHEUS
 Yes, to my friends
 I make a most distressing sight.

CHORUS
Was there more?
Or were you guilty of just one offence?

PROMETHEUS
 I stopped men thinking of their future deaths.          [250]

CHORUS
 What cure for this disease did you discover?             310

PROMETHEUS
 Inside their hearts I put blind hope.

CHORUS
 With that
 you gave great benefits to humankind.

PROMETHEUS
And in addition to hope, I gave them fire.

CHORUS
You did that for those creatures of a day?
Do they have fire now?

PROMETHEUS
They do. And with it
They will soon master many arts.

Prometheus Bound
Aeschylus