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Tony Harrison, writer and director, "Prometheus," 1998, motion picture for television, broadcast originally on BBC4

Cast of dramatis personae includes Hermes and Daughters of Ocean, thus admitting mythic elements in a narrative that is ostensibly also historical.

IMDB blurb: "Prometheus is a contemporary quest story set in end-of-millennium Britain and continental Europe. It asks what humanity has made of Prometheus' gift of fire — energy, technology, expertise, but also destruction, pollution, and war."

P. Michelakis: "Prometheus does nothing less than use Aeschylus' play and its romantic and socialist legacy to address some of the most defining themes of modern culture and history. The film takes spectators on an alternative grand tour of the European continent that brings together the Industrial Revolution and its consequences, the Second World War, the Holocaust, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the pollution of the environment in advanced industrial societies, and the fortunes of the working classes across Europe." (Greek Tragedy on Screen, 164-65.