Conflitto, mediazione e trasformazione nel Prometeo incatenato di Eschilo

Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound stages a conflict that goes beyond the opposition between power and rebellion, revealing a fracture within the very order governing the cosmos. Zeus, a young and coercive god described as a τύραννος, exercises a form of sovereignty grounded in force and lack of measure, while Prometheus embodies an autonomous conscious function that resists forced integration. This article offers a symbolic reading of the drama through an analysis of tragic language and the motif of the “curse of Kronos”, understood as a principle of actualizing necessity and fulfillment. Prometheus’ punishment—especially the symbolism of the eagle and the liver—is interpreted as a transformative process in which the wound becomes the site of a crisis of téchne and the opening to the recognition of limits. The Titan’s final liberation, made possible through the intervention of Heracles, is not read as an act of mercy but as the necessary outcome of an integrative process that transforms conflict into a renewed configuration of order.