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
lying home men
It's a man's jobno place for women's plans here!what lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble.
fate ancient
For by the will of the gods Fate hath held sway since ancient days.
wrath people danger
A people's wrath voiced abroad bringeth grave Danger, no less than public curse pronounced.
rain heaven demeter
The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the amorous heaven, impregnates the earth, and it bringeth forth for mankind the food of flocks and herds and Demeter's gifts; and from that moist marriage-rite the woods put on their bloom.
feet evil offence
Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right.
children soul arrogance
Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.
men blood dust
But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.
silence gains mortals
To many mortals silence great gain brings.
wrath parent
Words are the parents of a causeless wrath.
men deeds looks
No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove.
soulmate heart passion
But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind of ruin that befalls us? Wild passion, unrestrained, boundless, that overcomes the women, perverts the yoke of wedlock for beasts and men alike.
book men justice
You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents--you'll see them get the justice they deserve. For Hades holds men mightily to a strict accounting down below the earth; he sees all things, inscribes them within the book of his remembering.
light sea sky
No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute monsters bent on harm, and everywhere between the sky and ground lights bloom by day in flares and sudden bolts; and birds and beasts alike can tell of the whirlwind's whirling wrath.
men talking mind
Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind.