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Aeschylus' popularity is evident in the praise that the comic playwright Aristophanes gives him in The Frogs, produced some 50 years after Aeschylus' death. Aeschylus appears as a character in the play and claims, at line 1022, that his Seven against Thebes "made everyone watching it to love being warlike". [51]
The death of Aeschylus, killed by a tortoise dropped onto his head by an eagle, illustrated in the 15th-century Florentine Picture-Chronicle by Baccio Baldini [1] Frederick Barbarossa 's strange drowning gave rise to legends that he was still alive
Aeschylus: c. 455 BC: According to Valerius Maximus, the eldest of the three great Athenian tragedians was killed by a tortoise dropped by an eagle that had mistaken his bald head for a rock suitable for shattering the shell of the reptile.
The story of Aeschylus' death from above by rock or turtle is unquestionably apocryphal. Weird deaths were similarly ascribed to (e.g.) Homer, and the philosopher Chrysippus. It is a literary trope, and to be given no weight.
The Greek playwright Aeschylus was said to have been killed in 456 or 455 BC by a tortoise dropped by an eagle who mistook his bald head for a stone. If this incident did occur, the bearded vulture is a likely candidate for the "eagle" in this story.
Among them: a social media-famous tortoise named Tiptoe. Caitlin Doran documented her escape from the fast-growing fire with her 175-pound tortoise on social media Wednesday night. The videos have ...
The shell of the tortoise that supposedly killed Aeschylus; Apis, an Egyptian bull-deity "The cow with the crumpled horn" from the nursery rhyme "This Is The House That Jack Built" The cow that jumped over the moon from the nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle" A griffin; The dove that brought the olive branch to Noah to signify that the flood was ...
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