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
judgment fortune
Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.
men fortune good-fortune
Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.
literature fortune rejoice
Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
men love-is fortune
For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.
eye men fortune
High fortune, this in man's eye is god and more than god is this.
winning tears fortune
To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.
fortune mortals fortunate
To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.
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.
blood law cry
This is the law: blood spilt upon the ground cries out for more.
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.