Aeschylus (Greek: Αἰσχύλος; 525 BC – 456 BC) was a playwright of ancient Greece, the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.
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إن آلاف المصائب تخرج من البحر، وآلاف المصائب تخرج من الأرض، لتصيب أولئك الذين تستطيل حياتهم في الزمان
Thy tongue sounds in accordance with thy form. (Vulcan)
I think the slain care little if they sleep or rise again.
Be boastful and be bold, like cock beside his partner.
Here he lies like something melting away. His mother’s blood comes quaking howling brassing bawling blacking down his mad little veins.
Then he put on The harness of Necessity.
Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.
..განესტილი იატაკი მოყვასის სისხლით.
The jealous poison, lodged within the heart, Tortures with twofold pang whom it infects; By his own griefs oppressed, the envious man Groans also to behold another's joy.
Furono saggi i nostri padri, facendo questa legge: che chi avesse le mani insanguinate non potesse farsi vedere né avere contatto con nessuno; e l’espiazione fosse l’esilio, non la morte. Ché, se no, ci sarebbe sempre stato uno implicato nel sangue: quello con l’ultima sozzura sulle mani.
ღმერთებსა ვვედრი, ტანჯვას ჩემსა დასდონ სამანი
Prophets find bad news useful. Why, the primary aim Of all their wordy wisdom is to make men gape.
Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
Do not kick against the pricks.
The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golden glory, like some strange new sun...