https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/370755
> According to legend, the Greek playwright Aeschylus met a tragic death: one day, an eagle that had just caught a tortoise mistook Aeschylus’s bald head for a shiny rock, and accidentally killed the author by dropping the animal onto him. Tobias Verhaecht depicted this bizarre event in this drawing that was probably intended as a design for a stained glass window. In the upper left, the eagle hovers above the unsuspecting writer, sitting by the waterside.
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While Aeschylus was a phenomenal playwriter, a less known fun-fact about him is that he considered participating in the battle of Marathon his greatest achievement. This what he wrote on his tombstone:
> *Beneath this stone lies Aeschylus, son of Euphorion, the Athenian, who died in the wheat-bearing land of Gela*; ***of his noble prowess the grove of Marathon can speak, and the long-haired Persian knows it well”***.
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https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/370755
> According to legend, the Greek playwright Aeschylus met a tragic death: one day, an eagle that had just caught a tortoise mistook Aeschylus’s bald head for a shiny rock, and accidentally killed the author by dropping the animal onto him. Tobias Verhaecht depicted this bizarre event in this drawing that was probably intended as a design for a stained glass window. In the upper left, the eagle hovers above the unsuspecting writer, sitting by the waterside.
While Aeschylus was a phenomenal playwriter, a less known fun-fact about him is that he considered participating in the battle of Marathon his greatest achievement. This what he wrote on his tombstone:
> *Beneath this stone lies Aeschylus, son of Euphorion, the Athenian, who died in the wheat-bearing land of Gela*; ***of his noble prowess the grove of Marathon can speak, and the long-haired Persian knows it well”***.