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CHARACTERS MIGHT VIOLENCE (muta persona) HEPHAESTUS PROMETHEUS OCEANOS IO HERMES CHORUS OF DAUGHTERS OF OCEANOS SCENE: A bare and desolate crag in the Caucasus. Enter Might and Violence, demons, servants of Zeus, and Hephaestus, the smith. MIGHT: This is the world’s limit that we have come to; this is the Scythian country, an untrodden desolation. Hephaestus, it is you that must heed the commands the Father laid upon you to nail this malefactor to the high craggy rocks in fetters
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