Thro' all this peril; clear the voice rang out With many warnings, sternly threatening To my hot h...
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Stretched rendingly forth, to tatter and tear, My clenched hands wander, here and there, From head...
And what if none of those that tend the gates Shall welcome us with gladness, since the house With...
O holy earth and holy tomb Over the grave-pit heaped on high, Where low doth Agamemnon lie, The k...
Alack, alack, O sisters, we have toiled, O much and vainly have we toiled and borne! Vainly! and a...
Urged by no fear of other wrath and doom? LEADER What spur can rightly goad to matricide? ATHENA ...
Tell the tale first and set the matter clear. LEADER Though we be many, brief shall be our tale. ...
APOLLO Scorn of the younger and the elder gods Art thou: 'tis I that shall prevail anon. LEADER ...
Woe, woe is me!-with craft invincible. ATHENA I will not weary of soft words to thee, That never ...
Lead onward, that these gracious powers of earth Henceforth be seen to bless the life of men. (ATH...
460 BC PROMETHEUS BOUND by Aeschylus Characters in the Play Kratos Bia Hephaestus Prometheus ...
PROMETHEUS Ah me! Ah me! Fair progeny That many-childed Tethys brought to birth, Fathered of Oce...
Nor any bit, but mind's firm masterdom. And know that for thy grief my heart is sore; The bond of ...
Tamed to the rein and drove in wheeled cars The horse, of sumptuous pride the ornament. And those ...
had given him the slip in the forest, not to boast of it, but to hurry back to give his daughter Ch...