No, death would be better, for that would be a milder lot than tyranny. — Aeschylus
No, death would be better, for that would be a milder lot than tyranny.
In the original Greek
ἀλλ᾽ οὐκ ἀνεκτόν,ἀλλὰ κατθανεῖν κρατεῖ:
Agamemnon · 458 BC
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Aeschylus. "Agamemnon." The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides, edited and translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 1984.
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Aeschylus. Agamemnon. 458 BCE, The Dionysia, Athens, Greece.
