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• I pray the gods will give me some relief and end this weary job. One long full year I've been lying here, on this rooftop, the palace of the sons of Atreus, resting on my arms, just like a dog. I've come to know the night sky, every star, the powers we see glittering in the sky, bringing winter and summer to us all, as the constellations rise and sink.

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  Summer, Dog, Jobs

  "Oresteia: Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,

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

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  Mother, Fall, Air

  "Prometheus Bound". Play by Aeschylus,

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• If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

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  Men, Evil, Suffering

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• But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind of ruin that befalls us? Wild passion, unrestrained, boundless, that overcomes the women, perverts the yoke of wedlock for beasts and men alike.

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  Soulmate, Passion, Heart

  Aeschylus (2011). “The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia”, p.117, Oxford University Press

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• If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

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  Oil, Vinegar, Opponents

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• I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death

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  Eye

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• Number, the most excellent of all inventions.

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  Science, Numbers, Excellent

  Aeschylus (1922). “Four Plays of Aeschylus”

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• There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.

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  Hate, Hands, Enemy

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• ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Once I've picked the finest men in Athens, I'll return. They'll rule fairly in this case, bound by a sworn oath to act with justice.

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  Party, Men, Two Sides

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• But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow.

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  Block, Fate, Blow

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.370

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• Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

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  Done, Firsts, Causes

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.72, University of Chicago Press

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• For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

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  Love, Men, Fortune

  Aeschylus (2013). “Agamemnon in Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.88, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.

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  Wise, Men, Tears

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.33, University of Chicago Press

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• It's a man's jobno place for women's plans here!what lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble.

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  Lying, Home, Men

  Septem contra Thebas, l.200-1 (translated by C M Dawson).

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• There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.

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  Health, Disease, Limits

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• I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits.

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  Rights, Long, Lasts

  Aeschylus (1984). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides”, p.216, Penguin

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• Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right.

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  Feet, Evil, Offence

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.317, Delphi Classics

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• He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

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  Envy, Literature, Admiration

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.51, University of Chicago Press

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• Excessive fear is always powerless.

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  Power, Powerless

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus I: The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound”, p.140, University of Chicago Press

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• Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.

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  Yoke, Slavery

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• To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.

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  Winning, Tears, Fortune

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1956). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.

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  Hens, Boast

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• By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

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  Drinking, Water, Environmental

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• Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.

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  Men, Sky, Proud

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• What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.

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  Men, Doors, Giving

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