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Quotation from Prometheus Bound and Other Plays by Aeschylus
“Who sets the course and steers the ship of State”
Prometheus Bound and Other Plays, The Seven Against Thebes, opening speech, trans. E. D. A. Morshead (1908)
Eteocles opens the play with the image of the ruler as helmsman, which the chorus and scout extend throughout the siege.
Citation: "Who sets the course and steers the ship of State" — Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound and Other Plays, The Seven Against Thebes, opening speech, trans. E. D. A. Morshead (1908). (id aeschylus-prometheus-bound-and-other-plays-q3)
