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These are a series of incomplete lists of unusual deaths, unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources. 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 ]
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". [ 50 ]
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 Lammergeier stuff seems (to me) to lend credence to the story, which is a mistake.
I really cannot believe that anyone thinks this can pass muster as a WP article. lists need inclusion criteria that are objective. a list of first deaths, ie the first time someone died in a certain way, would have objective criteria, but most deaths are actually caused by cardiac arrest, and the definition of a death which makes it a "first ...
The earliest mention of the fable is a brief reference in The Myrmidons, a lost tragedy of Aeschylus written in the 5th century BCE. Here it is said to be of Libyan origin and is generally supposed to refer to the personal blame felt by Achilles for the death of his friend Patroclus. [2] So the eagle, pierced by the bow-sped shaft, looked
Adding the caveat that a contemporary source should call it unusual (or otherwise point out that it was exceptional, since the further back you go the more you see things like "terrible death" instead and if the death fits the other criteria then "terrible" is within the spirit of the page) increases the sourcing, which is rarely a bad thing ...
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Aeschylus, in Seven Against Thebes, assigns each of the Seven to one of the seven gates of Thebes, as do Euripides in The Phoenician Women, and Apollodorus. [33] While the names of the gates are similar among these sources, there is little agreement with respect to the assignments. Aeschylus further assigns a Theban defender to each gate. [34]
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