Prometheus B

Collage of Ancient Greek and English texts made with Processing. Text fragments come from Aeschylus, ‘Prometheus Bound’ 106 ff, 445 ff (Translation by Smyth); Plato, ‘Protagoras’ 320c — 322a (Translation by Lamb) and ‘Philebus’ 16b (Translation by Fowler); Euclid, ‘Elements’ Proposition 46 (Translation by Heath); and Lord Byron, `Prometheus’.

A celebration of Prometheus’ gift of the arts of Hephaistos and Athena, giving us a will and allowing us to rebel against oppression and (somewhat hopelessly) fate. Some editions were initially gifted to people who refused to burn "please burn this work". Counterpart to Prometheus A.

Typeface & type design: Philosophie de la Frisonne #2 © Daphne de Vries / Bureau Merkwaardig