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
men suffering doe
The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.
mother fall air
On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.
sweet pain hands
For sufferers it is sweet to know before-hand clearly the pain that still remains for them.
men hands justice
Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden overturn of chance They wear him to a shade, and, cast Down to perdition, who shall save him?
death pain dying
Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.
men deliverance crime
If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.
mother father law
"Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness
happiness death men
Call no man happy till he is dead.
death hate men
Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.
believe men keeping-promises
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
believe rumor facts
It is like a woman indeed To take rapture before the fact is shown for true. They believe too easily, are too quick to shift From ground to ground; and swift indeed The rumor voiced by a woman dies again.