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
toil fame
Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.
fashion revolution fit
Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.
honor modesty
Honor modesty more than your life.
sacrifice offering hymns
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
vanity air
They who prosper take on airs of vanity.
summer dog stars
I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, dog- like, I have kept, marking the conclave of all night's stars, those potentates blazing in the heavens that bring winter and summer to mortal men, the constellations, when they wane, when they rise.
wisdom suffering
Wisdom cometh by suffering.
good greek-poet learn men
It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
greek-poet grows teaches time
Time as he grows old teaches all things.
greek-poet somehow trust
For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.
greek-poet spilt
What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?
greek-poet
Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.
greek-poet man
The man who does ill must suffer ill.
gods greek-poet rail upright
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.