Thanks Mr Gutenberg

In announcing to the African American audience in Watts LA - some two months before his own assassination -
the death by shooting of Martin Luther King
Robert F Kennedy sought o comfort them, the nation and indeed himself by quoting from
the ancient Greek writer

Aeschylus (525 - 456 BC)

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep
pain that cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our despair,
against our own will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

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This profound quote is engraved upon his gravestone, a mere 30 feet or so from the grave of
his brother President John F Kennedy, gunned down in Dallas Texas.
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Aeschylus was the only man of his age, or indeed of any age,
who can compare with the great master of the modern drama in
sublimity of conception and grandeur of poetic imagery.
As to the esteem in which he was held by his contemporaries
and his immediate posterity there is sufficient evidence, and
first in the Frogs of Aristophanes, who there describes his temper as proud,
stern and impatient; his sentiments as pure, noble and warlike;
his genius inventive, magnificent and towering; his style lofty,
bold and impetuous, full of gorgeous imagery and ponderous expressions,
while in the dramatic arrangement of his pieces
there remained much of ancient simplicity and somewhat of uncouth rudeness.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus lauds the splendor of his talents,
the propriety of his characters, the originality of his ideas and the force,
variety and beauty of his language. Longinus speaks of the bold magnificence
of his imagery, though condemning some of his conceptions as rude and
turgid and his expressions as sometimes overstrained.
Quintilian ascribes to him dignity of sentiment, sublimity of ideas
and loftiness in style, yet often overcharged in diction and
irregular in composition. Such, as seen through the eyes of antiquity,
was the Shakespeare of the Greeks.