Furthermore,[7] in Kratinos' Ploutoi (436?),[8] which is mentioned by Herington but not given much significance,[9] it seems clear that during the reign of Zeus the Titans (gods of wealth and prosperity in this play, much as Ploutos was in Aristophanes' play by that name), were enslaved: éllå ZeÁ! K]rÒnon §g ba[!ile€a!/ §kbãllei k]a‹ Titçne! to[Á!/ !ta!iãzo]nta! de!m`[o›! élÊtoi!/ dÆ!a! ÍpÚ g∞n §kãlucen;[10]Later in the fragment, the Titans explain that they have returned to Athens to see their aÈtoka!€gnhton palaiÒn (17,25 PCG), who is probably Prometheus. If this is the case, the Kratinos fragment resembles a fragment from the Prometheus Unbound (190 Nauck2), perhaps the last play in the Prometheus trilogy: ¥komen [lacuna brevis]/toÁ! !oÁ! êylou! toÊ!de, PromhyeË,/ de!moË te pãyo! tÒd' §pocÒmenoi.... If the Titans of Kratinos' Ploutoi, released from the tyranny of Zeus, come to Athens (?) to reinstate a new age, and this alludes to Perikles and his temporary ouster in 430,[11] then it might not be implausible to see PV, the plays of its trilogy, and the references cited here to Pericles as a Zeus-like tyrant as a common literary theme of the time.[12] From this it is not difficult to see how Aristophanes probably picked up on the theme of Zeus as tyrant.