David Grene > Quotes

“Prometheus: Yes, I stopped mortals from foreseeing their doom.
Chorus: What cure did you discover for that sickness?
Prometheus: I sowed in them blind hopes.”
― David Grene, Greek Tragedies, Volume 1: Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound; Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Antigone; Euripides: Hippolytus

“DEATH What you propose, Phoebus, is to favor the rich.”
― David Grene, Greek Tragedies 3: Aeschylus: The Eumenides; Sophocles: Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Bacchae, Alcestis

“You are not the first, and not the last of humankind to lose a good wife. Therefore, you must understand death is an obligation claimed from all of us.”
― David Grene, Greek Tragedies 3: Aeschylus: The Eumenides; Sophocles: Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Bacchae, Alcestis

“The darkness creeps over my eyes. O children, 270 my children, you have no mother now, not any longer. Daylight is yours, my children. Look on it and be happy.”
― David Grene, Greek Tragedies 3: Aeschylus: The Eumenides; Sophocles: Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Bacchae, Alcestis

“DEATH There is not. I insist on enjoying my rights too.”
― David Grene, Greek Tragedies 3: Aeschylus: The Eumenides; Sophocles: Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Bacchae, Alcestis