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
intelligent decision brain
Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped
fire black smoke
Black smoke, the flickering sister of fire.
war political firsts
In war the first casualty is the truth.
men fortune good-fortune
Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.
yoke slavery
Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.
deceit causes holy
God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
quality female deceit
Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
honor modesty
Honor modesty more than your life.
wisdom suffering
Wisdom cometh by suffering.
time justice voiceless
Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.
sacrifice offering hymns
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
sick healer
Words are healers of the sick tempered.
memories grief heart
Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.
mother good-luck obedience
Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say.