aeschylus in A Sentence

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    The Greek playwright Aeschylus captured this for all time:.

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    God loves to help him who strives to help himself."--Aeschylus.

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    Aeschylus won 13 competitions and was sometimes defeated by Sophocles, while Euripides won four competitions.

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    Aeschylus won 13 competitions, and was sometimes defeated by Sophocles, while Euripides won 4 competitions.

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    If Aeschylus is the creator of Greek tragedy, it was Sophocles who brought it to perfection.

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    In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.-Aeschylus.

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    Aeschylus(525 BC- 455 BC), the“father of tragedy,” wrote various plays where his heroes fell from grace due to a combination of unwinnable circumstances, arrogance and/or simply stepping on the gods' toes.

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    Themis, who is associated with her in tradition as her daughter and partner or successor, is really another manifestation of the same deity: an identity which Aeschylus himself recognized in another context.

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    Sophocles' great mastery of his art appears, above all, in the clearness with which he portrays his characters, which are developed with a scrupulous attention to details, and in which he does not content himself, like Aeschylus, with mere outlines, nor, as Euripides often did, with copies from common life.

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    We have a generation that wants learning to come through fun- yet the voice of Aeschylus rebukes us when he says we must"suffer into truth” We entertain our minds to death and then find ourselves confused when our young people discover truth to be a superfluous nuisance impeding their pursuit of the blithe and happy life.

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