Aeschylus
Aeschylus
Aeschyluswas an ancient Greek tragedian. His plays, alongside those of Sophocles and Euripides, are the only works of Classical Greek literature to have survived. He is often described as the father of tragedy: critics and scholars' knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier tragedies is largely based on inferences from his surviving plays. According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in theater to allow conflict among them, whereas characters previously had interacted only...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPoet
winning unjust literature
I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.
literature mourn
Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.
literature guile
We shall perish by guile just as we slew.
justice afar looks
On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.
eye home hands
Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.
lessons late discreet
You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.
mother morning night
May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.
men envy
The unenvied man is not enviable.
lying home men
It's a man's jobno place for women's plans here!what lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble.
fate ancient
For by the will of the gods Fate hath held sway since ancient days.
wrath people danger
A people's wrath voiced abroad bringeth grave Danger, no less than public curse pronounced.
rain heaven demeter
The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the amorous heaven, impregnates the earth, and it bringeth forth for mankind the food of flocks and herds and Demeter's gifts; and from that moist marriage-rite the woods put on their bloom.
feet evil offence
Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right.
children soul arrogance
Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.