ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Once I've picked the finest men… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share
May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night. — Aeschylus Copy Share
In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain. — Aeschylus Copy Share
The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood. — Aeschylus Copy Share
The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the… — Aeschylus Copy Share
Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals? — Aeschylus Copy Share
God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house. — Aeschylus Copy Share
Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by… — Aeschylus Copy Share
“If libations were proper to pour above the slain, this man deserved, more than deserved, such sacrament. He filled our cup with evil things… — Aeschylus Copy Share
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of… — Aeschylus Copy Share