Who was killed when an eagle mistook his bald head for a stone?

McGruff

We know much more about Aeschylus than his predecessors, due, no doubt, to his subsequent renown as both poet and dramatist. Aeschylus was born around 525/524 BCE and died in 456 BCE. Though not among the rich, he came from good Athenian stock and was apparently well-educated. As an adult, Aeschylus fought at the Battle of Marathon in the First Persian War, a detail preserved on the Parian Marble. And again, during the Second Persian War, it is likely Aeschylus, by then in his forties, rowed with the Greek navy when it defeated its Persian counterpart at the Battle of Salamis (480 BCE). His brother Cynegirus is reported to have died there. Aeschylus is said to have died in Sicily, presumably on tour since the Greeks who lived there admired his work, or so some sources relate. According to ancient sources, the aged Aeschylus died when an eagle, carrying a turtle aloft so it could drop it on a rock and crush its shell, saw the elderly Aeschylus' bald head and unloaded the poor creature on him, killing him—and presumably the turtle as well. http://www.usu.edu/markdamen/ClasDram/chapters/071gktragaes.htm Feb 23 08, 8:56 AM

star_gazer

See question #26424. http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question26424.html Feb 23 08, 11:45 AM