To situate ourselves, Aeschylus he was a Greek playwright born in Eleusis, near Athens. He was the first of the great tragic of this city. Predecessor of Sophocles and Euripides, he is the founder of Greek tragedy. He fought the Persians at Marathon in 490 BC, at Salamis in 480 BC, and possibly at Plataea the following year.
Good old Aeschylus had the idea of going to the Oracle of Delphi (sacred place where the Greeks asked the Gods about his future) to know his future and more specifically about his death. The Oracle's revelation was categorical:
You will be crushed to death by a house.
Trying to avoid his fate, he moved to live outside the city. There he lived happily, like a partridge in spring, when something unforeseen happened. A bearded vulture hovered with a tortoise in its claws, looking for a rock on which to release the tortoise and feast on breaking the shell. This bearded vulture must not have been a lynx, visually speaking, and he mistook Aeschylus's head for a rock. So he dropped the tortoise against his head and the result... Needless to say how good old Aeschylus turned out.
Aeschylus opens the Strange Deaths section .
