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This exchange between Prometheus and the chorus occurs early in the play. It is significant because it underscores the infinite possibilities of Prometheus’s gift to humanity, but it also reflects Prometheus’s guilt in betraying the gods to save the human race. As Hephaistos says earlier in the play, Prometheus angered all the gods, not just Zeus, when he gave fire to humankind and turned his back on the gods for the benefit of humans. Here, Prometheus is reluctant to tell the chorus exactly why he is being punished (he tells them beforehand only that he has angered Zeus and now…