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
health disease limits
There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.
thank-you ties guests
Pleasantest of all ties is the tie of host and guest.
art stronger
Necessity is stronger far than art.
age seasons
It is always the season for the old to learn.
men love-is fortune
For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.
doors silence silent
. . . it is yours women's to be silent and stay within doors.
life sweet grief
Sweet is a grief well ended.
men age agamemnon
Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.
death pain dying
Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.
vanity air
They who prosper take on airs of vanity.
men fallen mankind
It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
pain truth want
Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain
suffering
Only through suffering do we learn
marriage wedding memories
When a match has equal partners then I fear not.