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Aeschylus

Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.) was a Greek dramatist, known as the father of the Greek tragedy. He also distinguished himself as a soldier both at Marathon and Salamis before he figured as a poet, especially a dramatic poet, who became founder of the Greek Tragic Drama. It is said that this Athenian dramatist wrote some seventy dramas, of which only seven are extant - the "Suppliants," the "Persæ," the "Seven against Thebes," the "Prometheus Bound," the "Agamemnon," the "Choephori," the Persians, and the "Eumenides". The tragedies Agamemnon, Choephoroe and Eumenides are part of his famous trilogy the Oresteia (458 BC) he is best known for. He was born at Eleusis and died in Sicily.

Wisdom & Quotes

  • Ask the gods nothing excessive.
- The Suppliant Women.
  • There is a limit to the best of health: disease is always a near neighbour.
-Agamemnon
  • What is there more kindly than the feelings between host and guest?
- The Libation Bearers.
  • When a match has equal partners, then I fear not.
- Prometheus Bound.
  • Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
- Prometheus Bound
  • Old Men are always young enough to learn, with profit.
- Agamemnon
  • Who except the gods can live time through forever without any pain?
-Prometheus Bound.
  • Many are the troubles of mankind.
- The suppliant Maidens.
  • Time brings all things to pass.
- The Libation Bearers.
  • Death is preferable - it is a milder fate than tyranny.
- Agamemnon
  • Wisdom comes only through Suffering.
- Agamemnon

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