Two other tragedies were associated with this, _Prometheus the Fire-bringer_ (Προμηθεὺς πυρφόρος) and _Prometheus Unbound_ (Προμηθεὺς λυόμενος). That the latter followed the extant play is of course certain, but the position of the _Fire-bringer_ is doubtful. One would naturally place it first in the trilogy: the offence, the punishment, the reconciliation. But, say some, in that case one can hardly imagine how Æschylus wrote the first tragedy without anticipating a great part of the second—the noble account which Prometheus gives of the victory of Zeus, his own offence, and the blessings it conferred upon men. Hence arises a theory that the _Fire-bringer_ was the last play of the trilogy in which the Titan, reconciled to Zeus, became a local deity of Athens, the giver of fire. But this view has been discredited by evidence[228] that there is not enough matter remaining for the _Fire-bringer_ after the close of the _Prometheus Unbound_. These two difficulties about the position of the _Fire-bringer_ have induced some to identify it with that _Prometheus_ which we know as the satyric play appended to the _Persæ_ trilogy, and to suppose that Æschylus told the story in two plays only, the present trilogy being completed by a tragedy unconnected with the subject. The best view is that the _Fire-bringer_ was the first play; the title suggests that it dealt with the transgression which led to the punishment portrayed in the extant drama; and the objection as to overlapping of the _Fire-bringer_ and the _Prometheus Vinctus_ is illusory.