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
suffering way ive-learned
I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.
power mood
Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.
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.
happiness prayer mind
But from the good health of the mind comes that which is dear to all and the object of prayer-happiness.
hungry wailing aloof
Hungry wailing standeth not aloof.
limits too-much human-nature
Know not to revere human things too much.