"Success is man's god." Choephorae, 59.

"So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten." Frag 135.

"Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof." Frag 146.

"O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse." Frag 250.

"A prosperous fool is a grievous burden." Frag 383.

"Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart." Frag 384.

"It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath." Frag 385.

THE PLAYS:
Read Aeschylus' plays online.

BACKGROUND:
• Iphigenia
• List of the Children of Agamemnon
• Feature on a modern adaptation of the Oresteia
• Brief entry on Aulis
• Brief entry on Orestes
• Brief entry on Aegisthus