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Born in 525 BC / Died in 455 BC / Greece / Greek

Poems by Aeschylus

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Lament For The Two Brothers Slain By Each Other's Hand

... Even to the bourne of all, to the unbeholden land ...

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The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia

... Their sceptres dashed to earth, and each broke out in tears, ...

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The Lament Of The Old Nurse

... . .   And then the shrill cries rousing me o' nights, ...

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The Decree Of Athena

...   What time 'gainst Theseus, breathing hate, they came, ...

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Song Of The Furies

... Though 'neath the earth our realm in unsunned regions pale ...

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Prometheus Amid Hurricane And Earthquake

... And the whirlwinds are whirling the dust round and round- ...

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The Battle Of Salamis

... The reefs and headlands were with corpses filled, ...

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The Beacon Fires

... Stalk, in stern tumult, through the halls of Troy! ...

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The Defiance Of Eteocles

...   Guided his deeds and thoughts, this might have been ...

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The Complaint Of Prometheus

...   Sweeping up to this rock where the earth has her bound, ...

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A Prayer For Artemis

...   Fraught with black fate to man's speech-gifted race ...

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Fragment from Aeschylus

...   Will not be grieved, can never wholly sink in wretchedness ...

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The Vision Of Cassandra

...   From my slaughtered kinsmen, fallen throne, insulted shrine, ...