Æschylus (es′ki-lus) or Aeschylus was the father of the Greek tragedy, who distinguished himself as a soldier both at Marathon and Salamis before he figured as a poet; wrote, it is said, some seventy dramas, of which only seven are extant—the "Suppliants," the "Persæ," the "Seven against Thebes," the "Prometheus Bound," the "Agamemnon," the "Choephori," and the "Eumenides," his plays being trilogies; born at Eleusis and died in Sicily (525-456 B.C.).
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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie. Go to Quote / Comment
Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy. Go to Quote / Comment
It is always in season for old men to learn. Go to Quote / Comment
I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery. Go to Quote / Comment
But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up. Go to Quote / Comment