Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Aeschylus
Born: 525 BC
Died: 456 BC (aged 69)
Bio: Aeschylus was an ancient Greek tragedian. He is also the first whose plays still survive; the others are Sophocles and Euripides.
Known for:
- The serpent son
- The Persians
- Prometheus Bound
- Seven Against Thebes
- Eumenides
- Agamemnon
Aeschylus Quotes