Monologue Search Monologues by Aeschylus http://www.monologuesearch.com/authors/Aeschylus/rss This channel provides quotes from monologues by Aeschylus added by the members of MonologueSearch.com. en-us #57 — Prometheus from Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/57 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/57 "Think not that I through pride or stubbornness Keep silence; nay, my brooding heart is gnawed Seeing myself thus marred with contumely; And yet what other but myself marked out To these new gods their full prerogatives? But I refrain; for, nought my tongue would tell Save what ye know…" #3371 — Cassandra from Agamemnon by Aeschylus http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3371 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3371 "Oh, mistery, misery! Again comes on me The terrible labor of true prophecy, dizzying prelude. Do you see these who sit before the house, Children, like the shapes of dreams? Children who seem to have been killed by their kinsfolk, Filling their hands with meat, flesh of themselves, Guts and…" #3754 — Athena from Eumenides by Aeschylus http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3754 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3754 "ATHENA: Now hear my decree, people of Attica, as you choose between the pleas in this court's first case of bloodshed. This council of judges will belong to the nation of Aegeus always and forever more. it will meet on this hill of Ares, camp and quarters for the Amazons…" #1657 — clissa from "The Libation Bearers" by Aeschylus http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1657 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1657 "The woman who is our mistress told me to make haste and summon Aegisthus for the strangers, "so that he can come and hear, as man to man, in more detail this news that they have brought." She put a sad face on before the servants, to hide the smile…" #1799 — AEGISTHOS from AGAMEMNON by Aeschylus http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1799 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1799 "AEGISTHOS: Hail, joyous light of justice-bearing day! At length I can aver that God's supernal, Judges of men, look down on earthly woes, Beholding, in the Erinyes' woven robes, This man, thus prostrate, welcome sight to me, The wiles atoning compassed by his sire. For Atreus, Argos' ruler, this man's…" #2114 — AEGISTHOS from AGAMEMNON by Aeschylus http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2114 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2114 "Hail, joyous light of justice-bearing day! At length I can aver that God's supernal, Judges of men, look down on earthly woes, Beholding, in the Erinyes' woven robes, This man, thus prostrate, welcome sight to me, The wiles atoning compassed by his sire. For Atreus, Argos' ruler, this man's father…" #2477 — CLYTEMNESTRA from AGAMEMNON by Aeschylus http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2477 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2477 "Men of our city, Argive elders here, I shame not in your presence to avow My wifely temper; bashful Fear in time From mortals dieth: not by others taught, But from myself, the wretched life I'll tell 'Twas mine to lead while this man was at Troy. First, for a…" #2030 — Clytemnestra from Agamemnon by Aeschylus http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2030 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2030 "Men of our city, Argive elders here, I shame not in your presence to avow My wifely temper; bashful Fear in time From mortals dieth: not by others taught, But from myself, the wretched life I'll tell 'Twas mine to lead while this man was at Troy. First, for a…"