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"Tame the savageness of man..." Quote
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 11:46 pm
by rocktupac
I'm searching the work of Aeschylus and I can't find this popular and often used quote: "To tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of the world." I've also tried doing a Google search for it and all I can find is its use in a Robert F. Kenendy speech and not the source location. Does anyone know what source this quotation is from?
I greatly appreciate any help!
Re: "Tame the savageness of man..." Quote
Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 1:42 am
by amyntoros
Try
this thread from a blog called Disinvoltura:
It attributes the quote to Edith Hamilton - something I also saw on other threads. However this one has more information and the blog's author even seeks out
Hamilton's sources.
Best regards,
Re: "Tame the savageness of man..." Quote
Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 2:03 am
by rocktupac
amyntoros wrote:Try
this thread from a blog called Disinvoltura:
It attributes the quote to Edith Hamilton - something I also saw on other threads. However this one has more information and the blog's author even seeks out
Hamilton's sources.
Best regards,
Thank you so much! This was very helpful and answered my questions
Re: "Tame the savageness of man..." Quote
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2018 5:28 pm
by guyatree
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The link "this" is now null. Disinvoltura is closed.
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Re: "Tame the savageness of man..." Quote
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2018 10:23 pm
by Alexias
Try this article by Joseph Casazza on jstor.org
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4352738?se ... b_contents, which states that rather than being from Aeschylus, this phrase is Edith Hamilton's own, but it was Gilbert Murray who served as her inspiration to combine an inscription at Delphi and a quote from Dionysus of Halicarnassus, De Thucydide 41. In the inscription Athens is praised because she "won mankind from the life of beasts to gentleness". Dionysus's quote describes the Athenians as "they who made gentle the life of the world." The phrase "to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of the world" appears to be Edith Hamilton's own, but it was Murray who linked the two original phrases together.