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
sweet grief suffering
For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?
wine fate tears
And now it goes as it goes and where it ends is Fate. And neither by singeing flesh nor tipping cups of wine nor shedding burning tears can you enchant away the rigid Fury.
heart home fate
Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast, He dieth not, unless the appointed time, The limit of his life's span, coincide; Nor does the man who by the hearth at home Sits still, escape the doom that Fate decrees.
men fire broken
When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.
death home men
A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.
death house path
For a single path leads to the house of Hades.
blow suffering deeds
For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow: it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.
toil fame
Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.
truth pain suffering
The truth Has to be melted out of our stubborn lives By suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, Nothing tells us how things really are, Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.
night men thinking
Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.
compulsion destroyed
Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.
suffering birth glory
Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.
blood
In the sinews of the dead there is no blood.
air heaven earth
The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.