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
greek-poet man
The man who does ill must suffer ill.
mines
My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.
friendship jealousy character
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
missing-you pain memories
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
funny wise stupid
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
winning wish athena
ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.
time time-management all-things
Time brings all things to pass.
joy tears stealing
Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.
envy people achievement
There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.
pain rowing advantage
There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
resolve seems
His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.
want ruins literature
You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
fate liberty agamemnon
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
trust spring heart
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.