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
punishment feet justice
Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.
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?
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.
strength justice pairs
When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?
fate justice anvils
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
justice afar looks
On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.
book men justice
You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents--you'll see them get the justice they deserve. For Hades holds men mightily to a strict accounting down below the earth; he sees all things, inscribes them within the book of his remembering.
men afterlife justice
For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.
justice customs dies
The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice.
men reality justice
Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.
men justice
Base men who prosper are unenviable.
men justice hypocrisy
Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.
justice suffering literature
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
men sight justice
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.