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Western civilization and remains part of Western heritage and language. Poets and artists from
ancient times to the present have derived inspiration from Greek mythology and have discovered
contemporary significance and promethius in classical mythological themes.
An prometheus poet – Byron – became the symbol of disinterested patriotism and with the
final winning of independence, his name became even brighter in Greece.
“Of the Prometheus of Aeschylus I was passionately fond as a boy, indeed the Medea were
the only ones, except the seven before Thebes (it was on of the Greek plays we read twice a
year at Harrow) which ever much pleased me. The Prometheus it not exactly in my plan, has
always been so much in my head, that I can easily conceive its influence over all or anything that I
have written”.
Medea and was in search for her in real life. He fell in love with a simple Venetian woman. Margarita Cogni, in so far as
she reminded him of Medea. He liked her as Medea, his singular choice for a women. He would have preferred “to any
that ever breathed”. As for Prometheus he reincarnated him in his own way ok life.
Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus Medea by Euripides are the focal points that help us trace the cultural links, not only
between Byron and Greece, but between Byron and Georgia as well. The myth of Argonauts, who sailed from Lokos to
Colchis to find the Golden fleece is universally known. The foundation of the kingdom of Colchis on the eastern shore of
the Black sea in Georgia dates back to the 9th century B.C. Medea’s father, Aeetes , king of Colchis, lived there in a
wonderful palace, ornamented with melons of copper and surrounded by fountains of milk and olive oil.
Prometheus was nailed on a Caucasian crag in today’s Georgia, and the Georgian mythological tale about Amirani
corresponds to the myth about Prometheus. It has been shown that the legend of Amirani originated in the later half of
second millennium before Christ. That ancient legend found its way to Greece, where it became known as Prometheus.
Thus Prometheus and Medea are of Georgian origin, but the were universally spread as uniquely impressive figures
through their Grecian versions and Greek civilization as a whole.
Byron didn’t go to Georgia but he knew it well – also its history and nature – and alluded to it and to a Georgian maid
as the criteria of beauty. Before leaving Falmouth for his first journey, Byron wrote to his friend Matthew's about the
amosing aspends of this sailors’ town comparing it to Georgia “—delectable region, as I do not think Georgia itself ran
emulate in capabilities or incitements…”
Was what her dress bespoke, a damsel fair,
And fresh, and “beautiful exceedingly
Who with the brightest Georgians might compare.”
G.G. Byron
Bibliography
1)”Myths and Legends”, A.P. Jacobson. 1978
2)”Georgian History”, N. Asatiani, M.Lortkipanidze. 1993
3)Amirai – Georgian Myths M. Shalikashvili. 2006
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6)Greek mythology – compiled by E. Khmaladze, Smirnova. 1992
7)G.G. Byron. Selected from Byron. Progress Publisher. Moscow 1973
8)Tskhvarichamia Legend, www.orthodoxy.ge
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