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Could be worse. An eagle once mistook Aeschylus's bald head for a rock and dropped a tortoise on it (expecting the rock to smash the tortoise shell), killing A

Could be worse. An eagle once mistook Aeschylus's bald head for a rock and dropped a tortoise on it (expecting the rock to smash the tortoise shell), killing Aeschylus. https://www.goldencharter.co.uk/news-and-info/2017/six-strange-deaths-from-history/#:~:text=Aeschylus%2C%20an%20ancient%20Greek%20playwright,the%20shell%20of%20its%20prey https://www.goldencharter.co.uk/news-and-info/2017/six-stran....

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leetcrew 6y ago
what a tragedy!
pizza 6y ago
Interesting angle for a funeral service ad..
ed25519FUUU 6y ago
> To add a further strange twist to the death of Aeschylus, Roman author Pliny, suggested that Aeschylus had been spending a lot of time outdoors to avoid a prophecy that he would be killed by a falling object.
- baobabKoodaa 6y ago
  I don't get it. If you're worried about being killed by a falling object, wouldn't you want to stay under the cover of a roof?
  - ponker 6y ago
    Buildings back then probably collapsed much more frequently.
    - asdff 6y ago
      The entire hellenic world was pretty much an earthquake zone too
  - notfed 6y ago
    I suspect at least part of this story originated as a joke given his status as the "father of tragedy".
  - inimino 6y ago
    It really depends whether you live in an area where earthquakes, collapsing houses, things falling from high shelves, etc are more common ("indoor dangers") or one where durian fruits, falling tortoises, etc ("outdoor dangers") are more prevalent. If the prophecy gets you either way, it's just a question of whether you'd rather meet your end indoors, perhaps while trying to reach something from a high shelf, with a deep sense of foreboding, or outdoors, probably in a completely unexpected fashion, or--shall we say?--completely out of the blue.
7402 6y ago
Actually, I think it was a Bearded Vulture. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearded_vulture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearded_vulture

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leetcrew 6y ago

what a tragedy!

pizza 6y ago

Interesting angle for a funeral service ad..

ed25519FUUU 6y ago

> To add a further strange twist to the death of Aeschylus, Roman author Pliny, suggested that Aeschylus had been spending a lot of time outdoors to avoid a prophecy that he would be killed by a falling object.

baobabKoodaa 6y ago
I don't get it. If you're worried about being killed by a falling object, wouldn't you want to stay under the cover of a roof?
- ponker 6y ago
  Buildings back then probably collapsed much more frequently.
  - asdff 6y ago
    The entire hellenic world was pretty much an earthquake zone too
- notfed 6y ago
  I suspect at least part of this story originated as a joke given his status as the "father of tragedy".
- inimino 6y ago
  It really depends whether you live in an area where earthquakes, collapsing houses, things falling from high shelves, etc are more common ("indoor dangers") or one where durian fruits, falling tortoises, etc ("outdoor dangers") are more prevalent. If the prophecy gets you either way, it's just a question of whether you'd rather meet your end indoors, perhaps while trying to reach something from a high shelf, with a deep sense of foreboding, or outdoors, probably in a completely unexpected fashion, or--shall we say?--completely out of the blue.

7402 6y ago

Actually, I think it was a Bearded Vulture. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearded_vulture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearded_vulture