Thanatos
01/22/2006 22:15 Filed in: Books & Literature
Alone of the gods, Death [θάνατος] does not love gifts;
sacrifices and libations will do you no good at all.
He has no altar; men do not sing him songs of praise.
Of all the gods Persuasion [πείθω] stays away only from him.
Aeschylus (525/4 - 456 BC), Niobe.
Cited in Anthology of Classical Myth by Trzaskoma, Smith, & Brunet.
sacrifices and libations will do you no good at all.
He has no altar; men do not sing him songs of praise.
Of all the gods Persuasion [πείθω] stays away only from him.
Aeschylus (525/4 - 456 BC), Niobe.
Cited in Anthology of Classical Myth by Trzaskoma, Smith, & Brunet.