Aeschylus

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1. Aeschylus - Noun

2. Aeschylus - Proper noun

Meaning

Greek tragedian; the father of Greek tragic drama (525-456 BC)

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Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean. G. H. Hardy

My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He wrote: "In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God." Robert F. Kennedy

Aeschylus is not impersonal but transpersonal, a believer in fate and moral responsibility at the same time. Rollo May

Suffering is an excellent teacher, and Aeschylus says, "We learn by sufferings. "We are easily] up; sufferings keep us humble. We easily turn to worldly things. Sufferings make us turn to ( love ourselves; sufferings teach us to love God." Peter de Noronha

Aeschylus had a clear eye for the commonest things. His genius was only an enlarged common sense. Henry David Thoreau

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. G. H. Hardy

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