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
war flower host
Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.
revenge war night
I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time.
war political firsts
In war the first casualty is the truth.
death war fields
The field of doom bears death as its harvest.
war giving witness
Ares gives his verdict without witnesses.
war firsts truth-is
Truth is always the first casualty of war.
peace war fighting
In war, truth is the first casualty.
afraid education greek-poet learning sail
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
advice rebuke
to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
evil far ignorant rather wise
I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.
greek-poet mother obedience parent success
Obedience is the mother of success, and success the parent of salvation.
pain wall suffering
Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.
pain ends extremity
Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.
pain memories rain
In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain.