Aeschylus
quoted 17 times by 9 works · an author the library holds
also in the atlas: Aeschylus the figure
Most often carried — quoted as a source. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
4 quoted · 13 carried
5 neutral 5 refuted 3 extended 1 endorsedin the voice of Glaucon 2 , Dio Chrysostom 1 , Phaedrus 1 , Phidippides 1 , Pisthetaerus 1 , Prometheus 1 , Prometheus (Aeschylus) 1 , Socrates 1 , Thetis 1
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in the voice of Glaucon
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Republic Plato 2 neutral 2 refuted 1 extended 5 citations · 6 passages
Corresponds to the citation of Aeschylus identified above; Glaucon explicitly names Aeschylus as the source of the quoted phrase.
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.
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Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 neutral 1 extended 1 endorsed 4 citations · 7 passages
Corresponds to the second citation of Aeschylus.
To the one who toils there is due from the gods the offspring of his toil, glory.
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in the voice of Prometheus
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Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 extended 2 citations · 4 passages
A long verbatim speech is attributed directly to Prometheus and quoted at length from Aeschylus's work.
How, in him, does Prometheus bear the pain which he undergoes for the theft from Lemnos — \"whence fire is famed to have been secretly parcelled out to mortals;
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in the voice of Pisthetaerus
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Birds Aristophanes 1 citation
Pisthetaerus explicitly invokes Aeschylus's line as apt commentary on their new feathers.
We ourselves asked for this transformation, and, as Aeschylus has it, These are no borrowed feathers, but truly our own.
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in the voice of Phidippides
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Clouds Aristophanes 1 refuted 1 citation
Aeschylus is cited via Strepsiades' request for recitation, and Phidippides explicitly rejects him as bombastic.
And then I bade him at least take a myrtle-wreath and recite to me some portion of Aeschylus;
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in the voice of Dio Chrysostom
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Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 neutral 1 citation
The speaker reports and evaluates the content and staging of Aeschylus's Philoctetes.
For the magnanimity of Aeschylus, and his antique quality, and besides the boldness of his thought and diction, appeared befitting to tragedy and to the ancient characters of the heroes — nothing contrived, nor garrulous, nor mean.
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The Histories Herodotus 1 neutral 1 citation
Records the specific mythological claim attributed to Aeschylus, matching the Aeschylus citation.
It was from this legend and no other that Aeschylus son of Euphorion took a notion which is in no poet before him:
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Phaedo Plato 1 refuted 1 citation · 2 passages
This is the quote event corresponding to the citation of Aeschylus's play via the character Telephus.
for he says a simple path leads to the lower world, but I think the path is neither simple nor single, for if it were, there would be no need of guides, since no one could miss the way to any place if there were only one road.
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in the voice of Phaedrus
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Symposium Plato 1 refuted 1 citation
Corresponds to the Aeschylus citation, where Phaedrus explicitly names and rejects Aeschylus's claim as nonsense.
And Aeschylus talks nonsense when he says that it was Achilles who was in love with Patroclus;
symposium ¶
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