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
god destiny towns
The saying goes that the gods leave a town once it is captured.
destiny long praying
Long tarries destiny, But comes to those who pray.
destiny men waiting
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
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.
destiny wealth stealth
Nought is there in wealth That serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.
destiny knowing bears
But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.
evil far ignorant rather wise
I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.
greek-poet man
The man who does ill must suffer ill.
greek-poet
Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.
greek-poet spilt
What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?
greek-poet somehow trust
For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.
greek-poet grows teaches time
Time as he grows old teaches all things.
good greek-poet learn men
It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
happiness prayer mind
But from the good health of the mind comes that which is dear to all and the object of prayer-happiness.