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
blood law cry
This is the law: blood spilt upon the ground cries out for more.
blood
In the sinews of the dead there is no blood.
death men blood
But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.
blood hands flow
And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.
men blood dust
But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.
hands agony blood
The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood.
men blood black
When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?
pain wall suffering
Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.
pain ends extremity
Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.
pain memories rain
In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain.
mother children nursing
The so-called mother of the child isn't the child's begetter, but only a sort of nursing soil for the new-sown seed. The man, the one on top, is the true parent, while she, a stranger, foster's a stranger's sprout.
wise wiser
Truly even he errs that is wiser than the wise.
spring night law
The people's awe and innate fear will hold injustice back by day, by night, so long as the people leave the laws intact, just as they are: muddy the cleanest spring, and all you'll have to drink is muddy water.
punishment feet justice
Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.