Eschilo frasi celebri
vv. 101-5
Prometeo incatenato
Origine: Citato in Umberto Galimberti, Psiche e techne. L'uomo nell'età della tecnica, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1999.
“È nella natura dei mortali calpestare ancora di più chi è caduto.”
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Agamennone
Frasi sulla giustizia di Eschilo
Frasi sulla vita di Eschilo
Eschilo Frasi e Citazioni
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Prometeo incatenato
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Agamennone
Agamennone
Origine: Da L'Orestiade: Agamennone, traduzione di Pier Paolo Pasolini, Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico, 1960.
“Il bene pubblico è interesse dell'uomo: guai se decide la donna.”
2006, p. 159
Sette contro Tebe
“[…] il malvagio che si avvoltola tra colpe | è destinato a perire.”
2004, p. 20
Agamennone
“Colui il quale canta al dio un canto di speranza, vedrà compiersi il suo vôto.”
citato in Gabriele D'Annunzio, Il fuoco, BMM, 1959
“Non di forza e di violenza c'è bisogno, ma il primo per conoscenza sarà re.”
citato in Joseph L. Mankiewicz, a cura di Alberto Morsiani, Il Castoro Cinema, 1991. Ed. 2005.
Prometeo incatenato
Agamennone
Origine: Da L'Orestiade: Agamennone, traduzione di Pier Paolo Pasolini, Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico, 1960.
Eschilo: Frasi in inglese
Aeschylus Le supplici
Origine: The Suppliants, lines 446–447 (tr. Christopher Collard)
“Mankind's troubles flicker about, and you'll nowhere see misery fly on the same wings.”
Aeschylus Le supplici
Origine: The Suppliants, lines 328–329 (tr. Christopher Collard)
Aeschylus Eumenides
Origine: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, lines 276–278 (tr. Anna Swanwick)
“Gain upon gain, and interest to boot!”
Origine: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), line 437 (tr. G. M. Cookson)
“Within one cup pour vinegar and oil,
And look! unblent, unreconciled, they war.”
Aeschylus Agamennone
Origine: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 322–323 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)
“No boaster he,
But with a hand which sees the thing to do.”
Origine: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), line 554 (tr. Anna Swanwick)
“But when a man
speeds toward his own ruin,
a god gives him help.”
Aeschylus The Persians
Origine: The Persians (472 BC), line 742 (tr. Janet Lembke and C. J. Herington)
Aeschylus Prometeo incatenato
Origine: Prometheus Bound, lines 953–954 (tr. Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
“The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.”
Fragment 267 https://books.google.com/books?id=OxlHAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA233&dq=%22The+man+who+does+ill,+ill+must+suffer+too.%22 (trans. by Plumptre)
“For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow; it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.”
Aeschylus The Libation Bearers
Origine: Oresteia (458 BC), The Libation Bearers, line 312
“God on high
Looks graciously on him whom triumph's hour
Has made not pitiless.”
Aeschylus Agamennone
Origine: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 951–952 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)
Fragment 146 (trans. by Plumptre), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Origine: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), lines 683–685 (tr. Anna Swanwick)
“In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship”
ἐν παντὶ πράγει δ᾽ ἔσθ᾽ ὁμιλίας κακῆς
κάκιον οὐδέν
Origine: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), lines 599–600 (tr. David Grene)
“I, of set will, speak words the wise may learn,
To others, nought remember nor discern.”
Aeschylus Agamennone
Origine: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 38–39 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)
“The field of Sin
Brings forth the fruits of Death.”
Origine: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), line 601 (tr. G. M. Cookson)
“Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.”
Aeschylus Prometeo incatenato
Variant translations:
Time brings all things to pass.
Time as he grows old teaches all things.
Origine: Prometheus Bound, line 981 (tr. E. H. Plumptre).
“Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart.”
Fragment 384, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Aeschylus Agamennone
Origine: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 68–71 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)
“Too true it is! our mortal state
With bliss is never satiate.”
Aeschylus Agamennone
Origine: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 1331–1332 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)
Aeschylus Agamennone
Origine: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 834–837
“Dangerous is a people's voice charged with wrath.”
Aeschylus Agamennone
Origine: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 456 (tr. Herbert Weir Smyth)
“While from inward health doth flow,
Beloved of all, true bliss which mortals seek.”
Aeschylus Eumenides
Origine: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, lines 535–537 (tr. Anna Swanwick)
“Life envy-free is life unenviable.”
Aeschylus Agamennone
Origine: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 939 (tr. Anna Swanwick)
Aeschylus Prometeo incatenato
Origine: Prometheus Bound, lines 637–639 (tr. Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
“For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.”
Aeschylus Prometeo incatenato
κρεῖσσον γὰρ εἰσάπαξ θανεῖν
ἢ τὰς ἁπάσας ἡμέρας πάσχειν κακῶς.
Variant translation by John Stuart Blackie (1850):
"Life and life's sorrows? Once to die is better
Than thus to drag sick life."
Origine: Prometheus Bound, lines 750–751
“For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.”
Aeschylus Prometeo incatenato
Variant translation: In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end
This poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
Origine: Prometheus Bound, lines 224–225
“Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?”
Aeschylus Agamennone
Origine: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 1485
“"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.”
Aeschylus Le supplici
Origine: The Suppliants, line 707; alternately reported with "Honour thy father and thy mother" in place of "Reverence for parents", in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Aeschylus Eumenides
Origine: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, lines 273–275 (tr. Anna Swanwick)
