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“For none is free but Zeus.”

— Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, line 50 (tr. Henry David Thoreau)

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About Aeschylus

525 BC – 456 BC

Ancient Greek tragedian, author of "Prometheus Bound" and the "Oresteia".

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