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
new-year feelings guests
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
fighting winning
Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.
sorrow length ends
Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.
work men haste
Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.
marriage fate men
For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.
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.
lying tyrants excellence
Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
war firsts truth-is
Truth is always the first casualty of war.
success mother safety
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
love god helping-others
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
time hunting growing
But time growing old teaches all things.
inspirational fear heart
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
house literature vote
In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
envy people achievement
There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.