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Aeschylus

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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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Quote Left O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray,
To come to me: of cureless ills thou art
The one physician. Pain lays not its touch
Upon a corpse.
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Quote Left There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. Quote Right
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Quote Left It is good even for old men to learn wisdom. Quote Right
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Quote Left Everyone's quick to blame the alien. Quote Right
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Quote Left Call no man happy till he is dead. Quote Right
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