Aeschylus: Agamemnon (1983 TV) part 2/10

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(not included in this performance) But he who joyously sings the victory of Zeus will strike dead on the target of Truth: that Zeus who put men on the path to Wisdom by creating the real law that thru suffering they shall suffer to learn as Hesiod said also, only a foolish man learns by suffering. It is difficult for modern and Christian-influenced folks like us to banish the doctrine of gaining wisdom and being enobled (let alone purification) only by suffering--the ancient Greeks thought ...