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
stronger age youth
Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth.
fraud
From a just fraud God turneth not away.
life sweet grief
Sweet is a grief well ended.
compulsion destroyed
Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.
heart guardian ought
There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.
toil fame
Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.
greek-poet grows teaches time
Time as he grows old teaches all things.
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.
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.
inspirational may trunks
From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.