Brainy Quote ~ Aeschylus 018 “Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.” ~ Aeschylus 018 ~ Ok "Setiap kali seorang manusia bergegas, Tuhan juga bergegas bersamanya." ~ Aeschylus 018 ~ Ok Pernahkah Anda berencana melakukan sesuatu dengan segera?! Ketika Anda bersama anggota keluarga atau anggota tim dalam pekerjaan, apakah mereka juga akan mengikuti kemauan Anda dengan segera? Mungkin iya, mungkin juga tidak! Bila anggota keluarga atau tim Anda mengerti dan memahani tujuan Anda, mereka mungkin mengikuti irama hidup Anda. Bila tidak, mereka kemungkinan akan mengabaikannya. Namun, tidak demikian dengan Sang Maha Pencipta. Tuhan akan bergegas bersama manusia yang bergegas melakukan pekerjaannya. Seperti yang pernah diutarakan Aeschylus, seorang Tragedian Yunani terkemuka, hidup dalam rentang tahun 525 – 456 BC (69 tahun), lewat quote-nya, ‘Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.’ Secara bebas diterjemahkan, ‘Setiap kali seorang manusia bergegas, Tuhan juga bergegas bersamanya.’ Tuhan itu maha adil. Ia menselaraskan berkatnya dengan manusia yang berusaha. Dia selalu hadir untuk manusia yang bergegas melakukan pekerjaan yang baik dan benar. Namun, seringkali manusia salah menafsirkan perilaku Tuhan. Menurut mereka, cukup dengan berdoa, maka berkat akan berlimpah bagi hidup mereka. Padahal, Tuhan tidak demikian. Ia senantiasa ada bagi setiap orang yang mendekatkan diri pada-Nya, sekaligus bekerja secara optimal. Bagi yang tidak, Tuhan menunggu sampai manusia merasakan kembali kehadiran-Nya. Ora et labora! Berdoa dan bekerja. Bergegaslah untuk berkarya. Jangan menunda. Bila manusia menunda, Tuhan pun demikian. Bila manusia bergegas, Tuhan pun demikian. Ia selaras dengan usaha kita. Usaha 100% akan diberi berkat 100%. Usaha separuh akan didiberkati separuh. Talenta 1 akan menjadi 2. Talenta 2 akan menjadi 4. Talenta 4 akan menjadi 8. Namun, bila kita berdiam diri, talenta 1 akan diambil kembali dan diberikan kepada seorang yang mau berusaha melipatgandakannya. Bergegaslah! Berkat Tuhan pun akan menyertai selaras dengan kecepatan yang kita lakukan. Indonesia, 19 Desember 2018 Brainy Quote ~ Aeschylus 001-041 Page 1 Riset Corporation --- Aeschylus Biography Born: 524 B.C.E. Eleusis, Greece Died: 456 B.C.E. Gela, Italy Greek playwright The Greek playwright Aeschylus was the first European dramatist whose plays were preserved. He was also the earliest of the great Greek tragedians (writers of serious drama involving disastrous events), and was concerned with the common connection between man and the gods more than any of the other tragedians. Early life Aeschylus was born to a noble and wealthy Athenian family in the Greek town of Eleusis. His father was Euphorion, a wealthy man of the upper class. Aeschylus's education included the writings of Homer (Greek poet who lived during the 800s B.C.E. and wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey ). In fact it was Homer who proved most inspiring to Aeschylus when he began to write as a teen. He entered his tragedies into the annual competition in Athens and won his first award as a young adult in 484 B.C.E. Aeschylus' writings were strongly Athenian and rich with moral authority. He carried home the first place award from the Athens competition thirteen times! As a young man Aeschylus lived through many exciting events in the history of Athens. Politically the city underwent many constitutional reforms resulting in a democracy. Aeschylus became a soldier and took part in turning back a Persian invasion at the Battle of Marathon (490 B.C.E.). Nevertheless, Aeschylus's plays left a bigger mark in Greek history than any of his battle accomplishments. Contributions, style, and philosophy Because Aeschylus was writing for the Greek theater in its beginning stages, he is credited with having introduced many features that are now considered traditional. Formerly plays were written for only one actor and a chorus. Aeschylus added parts for a second and a third actor as well as rich costumes and dance. Corresponding with his grand style were his grand ideas. Mighty themes and mighty men crossed his stage. Aeschylus has been described as a great theologian (a specialist in the study of faith) because of his literary focus on the workings of the Greek gods. The plays Modern scholarship has shown that the first of Aeschylus's plays was The Persians. It is also the only play on a historical subject that has survived in Greek drama. This play is seen from a Persian point of view. His theme sought to show how a nation could suffer due to its pride. Of his ninety plays only seven are still preserved. Aeschylus. Reproduced by permission of AP/Wide World Photos Prometheus Bound is perhaps Aeschylus' most well-known tragedy because of his depiction of the famous Prometheus, who is chained to a mountain peak and cannot move. He is being punished for defying the authority of the god Zeus by Brainy Quote ~ Aeschylus 001-041 Page 2 bringing fire to mankind. Zeus is depicted as a bully and Prometheus as a suffering but defiant rebel. Both are guilty of pride. Both must learn through suffering: Zeus to exercise power with mercy and justice, and Prometheus to respect authority. Aeschylus' masterpiece is the Oresteia, the only preserved trilogy from Greek drama. The three plays are Agamemnon, The Choephori, and The Eumenides. Though they form separate dramas, they are united in their common theme of justice. King Agamemnon returns to his home after the Trojan War (490–480 B.C.E. ; a war in which the Greeks fought against the Trojans and which ended with the destruction of Troy) only to be murdered by his scheming wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover. The king's children seek revenge that ultimately leads to their trial by the gods. The theme of evil compounding evil is powerfully written. Albin Lesky has noted, "Aeschylean tragedy shows faith in a sublime [splendid] and just [fair] world order, and is in fact inconceivable [unthinkable] without it. Man follows his difficult, often terrible path through guilt and suffering, but it is the path ordained [designed] by god which leads to knowledge of his laws. All comes from his will." According to legend, Aeschylus was picked up by an eagle who thought he was a turtle. The eagle had been confused by Aeschylus's bald head. Aeschylus was killed when the eagle realized its mistake and dropped him. For More Information Beck, Robert Holmes. Aeschylus: Playwright, Educator. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1975. Herington, John. Aeschylus. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. Spatz, Lois. Aeschylus. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982. Adopted from: https://www.notablebiographies.com/A-An/Aeschylus.html Aeschylus GREEK DRAMATIST WRITTEN BY: Anthony J. Podlecki; Oliver Taplin Aeschylus, (born 525/524 BC—died 456/455 BC, Gela, Sicily), the first of classical Athens’ great dramatists, who raised the emerging art of tragedy to great heights of poetry and theatrical power. Life And Career Aeschylus grew up in the turbulent period when the Athenian democracy, having thrown off its tyranny (the absolute rule of one man), had to prove itself against both self-seeking politicians at home and invaders from abroad. Aeschylus himself took part in his city’s first struggles against the invading Persians. Later Greek chroniclers believed that Aeschylus was 35 years old in 490 BC when he participated in the Battle of Marathon, in which the Athenians first repelled the Persians; if this is true it would place his birth in 525 BC. Aeschylus’ father’s name was Euphorion, and the family probably lived at Eleusis (west of Athens). Aeschylus was a notable participant in Athens’ major dramatic competition, the Great Dionysia, which was a part of the festival of Dionysus. Every year at this festival, each of three dramatists would produce three tragedies, which either could be unconnected in plot sequence or could have a connecting theme. This trilogy was followed by a satyr play, which was a kind of light hearted burlesque. Aeschylus is recorded as having participated in this competition, probably for the first time, in 499 BC. He won his first victory in the theatre in the spring of 484 BC. In the meantime, he had fought and possibly been wounded at Marathon, and Aeschylus singled out his participation in this Brainy Quote ~ Aeschylus 001-041 Page 3 battle years later for mention on the verse epitaph he wrote for himself. Aeschylus’ brother was killed in this battle. In 480 the Persians again invaded Greece, and once again Aeschylus saw service, fighting at the battles of Artemisium and Salamis. His responses to the Persian invasion found expression in his play Persians, the earliest of his works to survive. This play was produced in the competition of the spring of 472 BC and won first prize. Around this time Aeschylus is said to have visited Sicily to present Persians again at the tyrant Hieron I’s court in Syracuse. Aeschylus’ later career is a record of sustained dramatic success, though he is said to have suffered one memorable defeat, at the hands of the novice Sophocles, whose entry at the Dionysian festival of 468 BC was victorious over the older poet’s entry. Aeschylus recouped the loss with victory in the next year, 467, with his Oedipus trilogy (of which the third play, Seven Against Thebes, survives). After producing the masterpiece among his extant works, the Oresteia trilogy, in 458, Aeschylus went to Sicily again. The chronographers recorded Aeschylus’ death at Gela (on Sicily’s south coast) in 456/455, aged 69. A ludicrous story that he was killed when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his bald pate was presumably fabricated by a later comic writer. At Gela he was accorded a public funeral, with sacrifices and dramatic performances held at his grave, which subsequently became a place of pilgrimage for writers. Aeschylus wrote approximately 90 plays, including satyr plays as well as tragedies; of these, about 80 titles are known.