Aeschylus in the library

11 works in the library quote Aeschylus — 20 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.

through Aeschylus 19 citations · Eumenides 1 citation

Plato 7 citations · Clement of Alexandria 5 citations · Aristophanes 2 citations · Cicero, Marcus Tullius 2 citations · Aristotle 1 citation · Dio Chrysostom 1 citation · Henry Sumner Maine 1 citation · Herodotus 1 citation

The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the chapter that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of Aeschylus is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.

1. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 authority · 1 neutral · 1 refuted · 1 extended · 1 endorsed 5 citations · 8 passages

   book 4 3 passages anchored here · book 5 4 passages anchored here · book 6

   Clement explicitly disputes the play's supposed teaching of a single path to Hades, arguing instead there are many paths of sin.

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

2. Republic Plato 2 neutral · 2 refuted · 1 extended 5 citations · 6 passages

   book 2 4 passages anchored here · book 8 2 passages anchored here

   Aeschylus is named explicitly as the source of the quoted phrase, first applied to the just man and then reapplied 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.

3. Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 authority · 1 extended 2 citations · 4 passages

   book 2 3 passages anchored here · book 3

   Named directly as the poet whose work is quoted at length to support the argument that suffering is genuine.

   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;

4. Birds Aristophanes 1 authority 1 citation

   birds

   Pisthetaerus explicitly names Aeschylus as the source of the quoted line, invoking him as a poetic authority to explain their new wings.

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

5. Clouds Aristophanes 1 refuted 1 citation

   clouds

   Aeschylus is named and requested for recitation, then explicitly criticized and rejected by Phidippides.

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

6. Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 1 neutral 1 citation

   book 3

   A specific reported statement/incident attributed to Aeschylus is invoked to illustrate a category of ignorance.

   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;

7. Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 neutral 1 citation

   oration 52

   The speaker discusses and evaluates Aeschylus's version of the Philoctetes play in detail.

   But Euripides at once made them making a defence concerning their former neglect, that in so many years they had neither approached Philoctetes nor given him any help.

8. Dissertations on Early Law and Custom Henry Sumner Maine 1 extended 1 citation

   ch. 12

   Explicitly discussed and interpreted at length in the paragraph.

   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.

9. The Histories Herodotus 1 neutral 1 citation

   book 2

   Herodotus names Aeschylus with patronymic and identifies a specific mythological claim as his poetic innovation, reporting it as a fact of literary history without endorsing or attacking it.

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

10. Phaedo Plato 1 refuted 1 citation · 2 passages

    phaedo 2 passages anchored here

    Socrates explicitly names Aeschylus's play and Telephus's claim, then argues against it, making this a clear refutation.

    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.

11. Symposium Plato 1 refuted 1 citation

    symposium

    Aeschylus is named explicitly and his claim is directly rejected: 'Aeschylus talks nonsense when he says...'

    And Aeschylus talks nonsense when he says that it was Achilles who was in love with Patroclus;