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
moving light golden
The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golden glory, like some strange new sun...
fear stronger arms
Fear is stronger than arms.
birthday age taught
By Time and Age full many things are taught.
heart wine mirrors
Bronze is the mirror of form, wine of the heart.
art pain physicians
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.
summer dog stars
I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, dog- like, I have kept, marking the conclave of all night's stars, those potentates blazing in the heavens that bring winter and summer to mortal men, the constellations, when they wane, when they rise.
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.