Aeschylus Quotes About Earth

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.

  Aeschylus

  Strong, Rain, Animal

• The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.

  Aeschylus

  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

• 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.

  Aeschylus

  Rain, Heaven, Demeter

  Aeschylus (1926). “Aeschylus”

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

  Aeschylus

  Death, Men, Blood

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

  Aeschylus

  Mother, Fall, Air

  "Prometheus Bound". Play by Aeschylus,

• 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.

  Aeschylus

  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

• 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.

  Aeschylus

  Book, Men, Justice

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

• No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute monsters bent on harm, and everywhere between the sky and ground lights bloom by day in flares and sudden bolts; and birds and beasts alike can tell of the whirlwind's whirling wrath.

  Aeschylus

  Wrath, Light, Sea

  Aeschylus, Alan Shapiro, Peter Burian (2003). “The Oresteia”, p.128, Oxford University Press, USA

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

  Aeschylus

  Men, Afterlife, Justice

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