Aeschylus

or of the thing he does, as Aeschylus, who, having uttered the mysteries on the stage, was judged in the Areopagus and so released, having shown himself not initiated;

To the one who toils there is due from the gods the offspring of his toil, glory.

It is not, then, according to the Telephus of Aeschylus, that one should think a single path leads to Hades;

Let Aeschylus come forward, who was not a poet only, but a Pythagorean too — for so we have been told.

as that Prometheus of Aeschylus, to whom, when it had been said:

And the saying of Aeschylus was, it seems, far more correctly applicable to the unjust man.

and when we have set up an unjust man of this character, our theory must set the just man at his side—a simple and noble man, who, in the phrase of Aeschylus, does not wish to seem but be good.

nor again must we permit our youth to hear what Aeschylus says— A god implants the guilty cause in men When he would utterly destroy a house, but if any poets compose a Sorrows of Niobe, the poem that contains these iambics, or a tale of the Pelopidae or of Troy, or anything else of the kind, we must either forbid them to say that these woes are the work of God, or they must devise some such inter …

For in the Greek Tragedy of the Suppliants, Aeschylus has introduced the people thus addressing the king:

This was a received opinion in ancient times, as we find from the language of Aeschylus, in whose Tragedy of the Suppliants, the King of Argos, addressing a number of the daughters of Danaus, on their coming from Egypt, says, “If the sons of Egypt exercise controul over you, maintaining that they are authorised to do so by the law of the state, as being the nearest allied by blood, who can resist them?

We ourselves asked for this transformation, and, as Aeschylus has it, These are no borrowed feathers, but truly our own.

and then he immediately said, Shall I consider Aeschylus the first among the poets, full of empty sound, unpolished, bombastic, using rugged words?

But a man may be ignorant of (2) what he is doing, as for instance when people say it slipped out while they were speaking, or they were not aware that the matter was a secret, as Aeschylus said of the Mysteries;

I ought rather to say Aeschylus, or whoever else, like him, vividly setting forth the magnitude of a calamity, lamented it with a loud voice.

Or is it because Ennius, Pacuvius, Accius, and many others give delight, men who expressed not the words but the force of the Greek poets—how much more will the philosophers delight us, if, as those poets imitated Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, so these were to imitate Plato, Aristotle, and Theophrastus!

for some shared in the contest of Sophocles with Aeschylus, as of a young man with an old, and with Euripides, as of an older man with a younger;

This passage is parallel to a better known passage in the Eumenides of Æschylus, in which Apollo, as advocate for Orestes, argues that he was not of kin to his mother, Clytemnestra, whom he had killed.

It was from this legend and no other that Aeschylus son of Euphorion took a notion which is in no poet before him:

And the journey is not as Telephus says in the play of Aeschylus;

And did you not laud Aeschylus the Phleiasian to me and me to him until you brought us to such a pass that in mutual yearning, excited by your words, we went coursing like hounds to find each other?