“For them the height of evil waits implacable to pay them back in suffering for pride and godlessness.”

Sublime. Nearly 2500 years ago, Aeschylus was examining questions that still haunt us: the cost of war; the duty to shelter refugees even at the cost of peace; savagery vs. justice; and the nature of the universe - who determines Fate? Can even the gods escape it?

My favorite in this volume and of all the plays is “Prometheus Bound”, followed closely by “Agamemnon” from the first volume. All are worth reading, though, and watching, if we should be so lucky as to ever have the opportunity to see a performance.

“Nothing is sweeter than life lived, as long as this may be, always to hope and feast, keep the heart while it throbs alive, lit up with happiness.”