Greek writers such as Herodotus and Aeschylus, who naturally sided with their fellow Hellenes when describing the Greco-Persian wars, misrepresented them as barbaric and indolent.
" He found solace in Aeschylus, memorizing the lines from the Agamemnon that he would use when Martin Luther King Jr. was killed: "He who learns must suffer.
The prosperity that comes with more money is not by itself a cure-all against an ill-led life, and may be a source of dangerous foolishness, as Aeschylus warned centuries ago.