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Aeschylus

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I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.


— Aeschylus


#i #know #speak #those #who

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.


— Aeschylus


#know #many #misery #proper #purifying

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.


— Aeschylus


#dead #deeds #disgraceful #evil #good

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.


— Aeschylus


#friends #into #oil #opponents #pour

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.


— Aeschylus


#counsel #foot #him #his #keeps

It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.


— Aeschylus


#bring #first #ill #news #thing

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.


— Aeschylus


#afflicted #easy #give #prosperity

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.


— Aeschylus


#good #learn #men #old #old men

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.


— Aeschylus


#makes #man #oath #us

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.


— Aeschylus


#justice #learning #scale #some #suffering






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Did you know about Aeschylus?

At least one of his works was influenced by the Persian invasion of Greece which took place during his lifetime. Hugh Lloyd-Jones (Regius Professor of Greek Emeritus at Oxford University) draws attention to Wagner's reverence of Aeschylus. During Aeschylus's lifetime dramatic competitions became part of the City Dionysia in the spring.

So important was the war to Aeschylus and the Greeks that upon his death around 456 BC his epitaph commemorated his participation in the Greek victory at Marathon rather than his success as a playwright. 456/455 BC) was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed the others being Sophocles and Euripides. He was probably the first dramatist to present plays as a trilogy and his Oresteia is the only ancient example of the form to have survived.

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