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
judgment fortune
Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.
men suffering doe
The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.
men deliverance crime
If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.
long suffering lasts
Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.
destiny men shadow
Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.
women burning spirit
The burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me; for I have a spirit keen to mark these things.
wine water house
Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich.
destiny wealth stealth
Nought is there in wealth That serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.
war flower host
Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.
men hands justice
Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden overturn of chance They wear him to a shade, and, cast Down to perdition, who shall save him?
truth lying lips
For the lips of Zeus do not know how to lie, but bring to fulfilment every word.
destiny knowing bears
But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.
fashion revolution fit
Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.
freedom zeus knows
For know that no one is free, except Zeus.