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
war firsts truth-is
Truth is always the first casualty of war.
silence speech misery
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
doctors intelligence hunger
Bonds and the pangs of hunger are excellent prophet doctors for the wits.
adversity suffering rewards
The reward of suffering is experience
dream children men
Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.
marriage fate men
For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.
eye
I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death
justice suffering literature
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
dream men literature
I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
power powerless
Excessive fear is always powerless.
work men haste
Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.
sorrow length ends
Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.
fighting winning
Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.
new-year feelings guests
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?