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• Prometheus UnboundAuthor's PrefacePercy Bysshe ShelleyThe Greek tragic writers, in selecting as their subject any portion of their nationalhistory or mythology, employed in their treatment of it a certain arbitrary discretion.

  Prometheus Unbound Percy Bysshe Shelley Author's Preface The Greek tragic writers, in selecting as their subject any portion of their national history or mythology, employed in their treatment of it a certain arbitrary discretion. They by no means conceived themselves bound to adhere to the common interpretation or to imitate in story as in title their rivals and predecessors. Such a system would have amounted to a resignation of those claims to preference over their competitors which incited...