Thursday, March 19, 2026

Aeschylus

Aeschylus (c. 525-456 BCE)

“Make me rich with no man’s envy,
neither a raider of cities, no,
nor a slave come face to face with life
overpowered by another.”

  • From Aeschylus’ Agamemnon (approximately line 465), translated by Robert Fagles. New York: Penguin Classics, 1979.

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