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
greek-poet mother obedience parent success
Obedience is the mother of success, and success the parent of salvation.
mother fall air
On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.
mother morning night
May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.
success mother safety
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
inspirational mother wisdom
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
mother father law
"Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness
mother children nursing
The so-called mother of the child isn't the child's begetter, but only a sort of nursing soil for the new-sown seed. The man, the one on top, is the true parent, while she, a stranger, foster's a stranger's sprout.
mother good-luck obedience
Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say.
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.