The Most Ridiculous Dea*h in Ancient History

In 456 BC, Greek tragedian Aeschylus was by a tortoise dropped by an eagle that mistook his bald head for a rock. But the real twist? An oracle predicted he would die from something falling from above. Discover how one of antiquity’s greatest dramatists met history’s most absurd end—and why Romans couldn’t stop telling this story.

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