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
should
Even the old should learn.
speak stranger ill
Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.
teacher acceptance moderation
If you will take me as your teacher, you will not kick against the pricks.
courage fear tongue
Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.
death war fields
The field of doom bears death as its harvest.
men justice
Base men who prosper are unenviable.
limits too-much human-nature
Know not to revere human things too much.
marriage
The best by far is to marry in one's own rank.
kindness kind
Everyone, to those weaker than themselves, is kind.
soul flow calm
Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.
law states
The laws of a state change with the changing times.
power mood
Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.
success men knees
Success! to thee, as to a God, men bend the knee.
heaven persuasion aloof
From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.