Author: Aeschylus

Cited by

• Marcus Sedgwick (1)
  • IN: The Foreshadowing (2005) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: So, believe me, or not, What does it matter now? Fate works its way, And soon you will stand and say, my words were true.
    FROM: Agamemnon, (-458), NULL, Greece
• L. J. Smith (1)
  • IN: Stefan's Diaries Vol. 3 The Craving (2011) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Michele Vail (1)
  • IN: Unchosen (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Play, Greee
• Nadeem Aslam (1)
  • IN: The Blind Man's Garden (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: But a man's life blood is dark and mortal. Once it wets the earth what song can it sing back?
    FROM: Agamemnon, (-458), Play, Greece
• Curzio Malaparte (1)
  • IN: The Skin (1949) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: If conquerors respect the temple and the gods of the conquered, they shall be saved.
    FROM: Agamemnon, (-458), Play, Greece
• Matthew Fitzsimmons (1)
  • IN: Poison Feather (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: But this is what you pay, Prometheus, for that tongue of yours which talked so high and haughty; you are not yet humble; still you do not yield to your misfortunes, and you wish, indeed, to add some more to them.
    FROM: Prometheus Bound, (-430), Book, Greece
• Elizabeth Hand (1)
  • IN: Icarus Descending (1993) Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: But when, from flesh born mortal, Man’s blood on earth lies fallen, A dark, unfading stain, Who then by incantations Can bid blood live again? Zeus in his pure wisdom ended That sage’s skill who summoned Dead flesh to rise from darkness And live a second time; Lest murder cheaply mended Invite men’s hands to crime…
    FROM: Agamemnon, (-458), Play, Greece
• Lincoln And Preston, Douglas Child (1)
  • IN: The Obsidian Chamber (2016) Fiction, Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: Even in our sleep pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until in our own despair against our will comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.
    FROM: Aeschylus, Agamemnon, as paraphrased by Robert F. Kennedy, (1968), NULL, Greece
• Steven Saylor (2)
  • IN: A Mist of Prophecies (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Cassandra: Apollo, Apollo! Lord of the ways, my ruin You have undone me once again, and utterly. Chorus: After the darkness of her speech I go bewildered in a mist of prophecies.
    FROM: Agamemnon 1080-82; 1112-13, (-458), Play, Greece
  • IN: Wrath of the Furies (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For the wrath of the Furies who keep watch upon mortals will not follow deeds, but I will let loose death in every form.
    FROM: The Eumenides, (-458), Play, Greece
• Gregg Loomis (2)
  • IN: The First Casualty (2013) Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, American
    EPIGRAPH: In war, truth is the first casualty.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Andrew Krivak (1)
  • IN: The Signal Flame (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: So now I am still awatch for the signal-flame, the gleaming fire that is to harbinger news from Troy...
    FROM: Agamemnon, (-458), Play, Greece
• Brian Van Reet (1)
  • IN: Spoils (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Low lie the shattered towers whereas they fell, And I -- ah burning heart! -- shall soon lie low as well.
    FROM: Agamemnon, (-458), Play, Greece
• William Sutcliffe (1)
  • IN: Are You Experienced? (1997) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Zeus who leads mortals on the road to understanding, Zeus who has ordained that wisdom comes through suffering.
    FROM: Agamemnon, (-458), Play, Greece
• Tim Parks (1)
  • IN: Shear (1993) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The mortal cannot go fearless through these many-coloured beauties.
    FROM: Agamemnon, 923-4, (None), Poem, Greece