About Aeschylus
Aeschylus (UK: , US: ; Ancient Greek: Αἰσχύλος Aischýlos; c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian, often described as the father of tragedy. Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek tragedy is largely based on inferences made from reading...
More quotations from Aeschylus
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
More quotations tagged with “language”
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?
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