The Mummy! Egypt; the 1821 public unwrappings of Egyptian mummies in a theatre near Piccadilly, which she may have attended as a girl; and, very likely, the 1818 novel by Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus." As Shelley had written of Frankenstein's creation, "A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch," which may have triggered young Miss Webb's later concept. In any case, at many points she deals in greater clarity with elements from the earlier book: the loathing for the much-desired object, the immediate arrest for crime and attempt to lie one's way out
Prometheus the Fire-Bringer Aeschylus' "Oresteia" provides an aetiology for Athens's Areopagus, it has been suggested that "Prometheus the Fire-Bringer" concludes with providing an aetiology for a yearly Athenian torch race honoring the Titan. A minority of scholars believe that "Prometheus the Fire-Bringer" is actually the first play in the trilogy. One reason is that "Prometheus Bound" begins in medias res. According to this theory, "Prometheus the Fire-Bringer" would dramatize the Titan's theft of fire as described in the "Theogony". Prometheus the Fire-Bringer Prometheus the Fire-Bringer (Ancient Greek: Προμηθεὺς Πυρφόρος, "Promētheús Pyrphóros") was probably the final play in the "Prometheia" trilogy traditionally ascribed to