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
strong rain men
The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite ....
crazy health mind
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
envy literature admiration
He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
education learning men
It is always in season for old men to learn.
time time-management all-things
Time brings all things to pass.
men world this-world
Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
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.