ἄνδρες γὰρ ἑπτά, θούριοι λοχαγέται,
ταυροσφαγοῦντες ἐς μελάνδετον σάκος
καὶ θιγγάνοντες χερσὶ ταυρείου φόνου,
Ἄρη τ’, Ἐνυώ, καὶ φιλαίματον Φόβον
ὡρκωμότησαν ἢ πόλει κατασκαφὰς
θέντες λαπάξειν ἄστυ Καδμείων βίᾳ,
ἢ γῆν θανόντες τήνδε φυράσειν φόνῳ
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Le serment des sept chefs argiens contre Thèbes, décrit à Étéocle par un Messager.
Les Sept contre Thèbes
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“Zeus! … quel que soit son vrai nom, si celui-ci lui agrée, c'est celui dont je l'appelle.”
Ζεύς, ὅστις ποτ’ ἐστίν, εἰ τόδ’ αὐ-
τῷ φίλον κεκλημένῳ,
τοῦτό νιν προσεννέπω.
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Invocation à Zeus pendant la parodos (entrée du Chœur sur scène)
L'Orestie, Agamemnon
ἄπειρον ἀμφίβληστρον, ὥσπερ ἰχθύων,
περιστιχίζω, πλοῦτον εἵματος κακόν
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Clytemnestre raconte le piège qu'elle a tendu à son époux Agamemnon pour le tuer.
L'Orestie, Agamemnon
τῶν τοι ματαίων ἀνδράσιν φρονημάτων
ἡ γλῶσσ’ ἀληθὴς γίγνεται κατήγορος.
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Étéocle réagissant aux propos impies de Capanée, l'un des sept chefs assaillant Thèbes, que lui rapporte le Messager.
Les Sept contre Thèbes
ἄρασσε μᾶλλον, σφίγγε, μηδαμῇ χάλα·
δεινὸς γὰρ εὑρεῖν κἀξ ἀμηχάνων πόρον.
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Le dieu Pouvoir (Kratos) conseille Héphaïstos pendant que ce dernier enchaîne Prométhée au mont Caucase.
Prométhée enchaîné
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La déesse Athéna instaure le tribunal de l'Aréopage à Athènes afin de trancher le conflit entre Apollon et les Erinyes au sujet de la culpabilité ou de l'innocence d'Oreste (la mère d'Oreste, Clytemnestre, ayant tué son époux Agamemnon, Oreste a tué Clytemnestre, commettant ainsi un matricide pour venger son père).
L'Orestie, Les Euménides
Eschyle: Citations en anglais
“What is pleasanter than the tie of host and guest?”
Aeschylus
The Libation Bearers
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), The Libation Bearers, line 702
Source: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), lines 200–201 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)
“The walls of Athens are impregnable,
Their firmest bulwarks her heroic sons.”
Aeschylus
The Persians
Source: The Persians (472 BC), line 349 (tr. Robert Potter)
“Obedience mother is of good success,
Sure pledge of safety.”
Source: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), lines 224–225 (tr. Anna Swanwick)
Aeschylus
Les Euménides
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, lines 550–552 (tr. Herbert Weir Smyth)
“But when the dust has drawn up the blood of a man, once he is dead, there is no return to life.”
Aeschylus
Les Euménides
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, lines 647–648 (tr. Herbert Weir Smyth)
“Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.”
Aeschylus
Agamemnon
Variant translation: Death is softer by far than tyranny.
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 1364
“Through want of heart fear seizes on my tongue.”
Source: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), line 259 (tr. Anna Swanwick)
“A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.”
Fragment 383, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Since it most profits that the truly wise
Should seem not wise at all.”
Aeschylus
Prométhée enchaîné
Source: Prometheus Bound, line 385 (tr. Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
“In war, truth is the first casualty.”
This is often attributed to U.S. Senator Hiram Johnson, but does not appear anywhere in his speeches. Arthur Ponsonby#Falsehood in Wartime (1928) quoted: "When war is declared, Truth is the first casualty", but the first recorded use seems to be by Philip Snowden in his introduction to Truth and the War, by E. D. Morel. London, July 1916: "'Truth,' it has been said, 'is the first casualty of war.'" Samuel Johnson#The Idler (1758–1760) expressed a similar idea: "Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages."
Misattributed
“Justice turns the scale
For those to whom through pain
At last comes wisdom's gain.”
Aeschylus
Agamemnon
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 250–251 (tr. E. H. Plumptre)
“None of their own will choose a bond-slave's life.”
Aeschylus
Agamemnon
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 953 (tr. E. H. Plumptre)
“Bitter, being first to tell you bitter news.”
Aeschylus
The Persians
Source: The Persians (472 BC), line 253 (tr. Janet Lembke and C. J. Herington)
“It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.”
Fragment 385, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.”
Aeschylus
Agamemnon
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 1668
Aeschylus
Les Euménides
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, lines 312–320 (tr. Herbert Weir Smyth)
“True marriage is the union that mates
Equal with equal.”
Aeschylus
Prométhée enchaîné
Source: Prometheus Bound, line 890 (tr. G. M. Cookson)
Source: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), lines 397–399 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)
“When we know clearly, then should we discuss:
To guess is one thing, and to know another.”
Aeschylus
Agamemnon
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 1368–1369 (tr. E. H. Plumptre)
“She [Helen] brought to Ilium her dowry, destruction.”
Aeschylus
Agamemnon
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 406
“Easy, whoever out of trouble holds his
Foot, to admonish and remind those faring
Ill.”
Aeschylus
Prométhée enchaîné
Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 263–265 (tr. Henry David Thoreau)
“If I grieve,
I do not therefore wish to multiply
The griefs of others.”
Aeschylus
Prométhée enchaîné
Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 345–346 (tr. Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
“Be boastful and be bold, like cock beside his partner.”
Aeschylus
Agamemnon
Kόμπασον θαρσῶν, ἀλέκτωρ ὥστε θηλείας πέλας.
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 1671 (tr. Anna Swanwick)
“God’s best gift Is a mind free from folly”
Aeschylus
Agamemnon
Phillip Vellacott, The Oresteian Trilogy, Penguin 1973 ( Google Books https://books.google.com.au/books?id=tuRiOESBVjkC)
Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon
“Glances whose gentle fire Bestowed both wound and balm;”
Aeschylus
Agamemnon
Phillip Vellacott, The Oresteian Trilogy, Penguin 1973 ( Google Books https://books.google.com.au/books?id=tuRiOESBVjkC)
Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon
