Prometheus Unbound (Shelley)
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Prometheus Unbound is a four-act lyrical drama by Percy Bysshe Shelley, first published in 1820. It is concerned with the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus, who defies the gods and
Joseph Severn, Posthumous Portrait of Shelley Writing Prometheus Unbound (1845).
Percy Bysshe Shelley by Alfred Clint
Demogorgon
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Demogorgon is a deity or demon associated with the underworld. Although often ascribed to Greek mythology, the name probably arises from an unknown copyist's misreading of a commentary by a fourth-cen
Prometheus Unbound (Shelley)
…and that there are two realities: the current and the shadow reality that exists "Till death unite them and they part no more". She then mentions Demogorgon, "the supreme Tyrant" of the shadow realm, and asks Prometheus to call upon "Thine own ghost, or the ghost of Jupiter, / Hades, or Typhon or what…
Late 16th-century Demogorgon woodcut by Hendrick Goltzius