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
procrastination delay hours
Delay not to seize the hour!
inspirational personal-growth self-growth
God ever works with those who work with will.
medicine community hatred
Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
feet giving advice
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
delay resolve avoidance
There is no avoidance in delay.
pain rowing advantage
There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
mother father law
"Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness
youth teach freshness
Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
eye
I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death
adversity suffering rewards
The reward of suffering is experience
want ruins literature
You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
resolve seems
His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.
dream men literature
I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
justice suffering literature
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.