Aeschylus (525 BC456 BC) was a playwright of ancient Greece. Aeschylus was the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.
According to legend, eagles picked up tortoises and attempted to crack them open by dropping them on rocks. Aeschylus was killed in 456 BC when an eagle, mistaking the playwright's bald crown for a stone, dropped a tortoise on his head killing him instantly. Talk about a Greek Tragedy.
