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 mother obedience parent success
Obedience is the mother of success, and success the parent of salvation.
kindness kind
Everyone, to those weaker than themselves, is kind.
lessons late discreet
You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.
kicks
Do not kick against the pricks.
mankind misfortunes
The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.
drinking water environmental
By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
hens boast
Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
ruins literature free-will
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
deceit causes holy
God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
sick healer
Words are healers of the sick tempered.
yoke slavery
Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.
time justice voiceless
Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.
dream children men
Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.
stronger age youth
Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth.