Aeschylus Quotes About Earth

• The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite.

  Esquilo

  Strong, Rain, Animal

• El aire es Zeus, Zeus la tierra, y Zeus el cielo, Zeus todo lo que es, y lo que los trasciende a todos.

  Esquilo

  Air, Heaven, Earth

  Aeschylus (1868). “The Tragedies of Aeschylos: A New Translation with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.68

• But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.

  Esquilo

  Death, Men, Blood

• The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the amorous heaven, impregnates the earth, and it bringeth forth for mankind the food of flocks and herds and Demeter's gifts; and from that moist marriage-rite the woods put on their bloom.

  Esquilo

  Rain, Heaven, Demeter

  Aeschylus (1926). “Aeschylus”

• On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.

  Esquilo

  Mother, Fall, Air

  "Prometheus Bound". Play by Aeschylus,

• You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents--you'll see them get the justice they deserve. For Hades holds men mightily to a strict accounting down below the earth; he sees all things, inscribes them within the book of his remembering.

  Esquilo

  Book, Men, Justice

  Aeschylus (2011). “The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia”, p.159, Oxford University Press

• Nadie puede contar los terrores que engendra la tierra, catastróficos, horripilantes, y los vastos brazos del mar pululan con monstruos brutos empeñados en hacer daño, y por todas partes entre el cielo y la tierra las luces florecen de día en llamaradas y repentinos relámpagos; y aves y bestias por igual pueden hablar de la ira arremolinada del torbellino.

  Esquilo

  Ira, Luz, Mar

  Esquilo, Alan Shapiro, Peter Burian (2003). "The Oresteia", p.128, Oxford University Press, EE.UU.

• For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.

  Esquilo

  Men, Afterlife, Justice

• For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man weighed down with deeds of hate should follow till the earth his life immure. Nor when he dies can he boast of being truly free.

  Esquilo

  Hate, Fate, Men

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.374

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