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
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.
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.
deceit causes holy
God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
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.
compulsion destroyed
Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.
greek-poet grows teaches time
Time as he grows old teaches all things.
greek-poet man
The man who does ill must suffer ill.
funny wise stupid
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
dream children men
Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.
dream men literature
I know how men in exile feed on dreams.