S01E12: Stupid Deaths: Aeschylus | Horrible Histories

Duration: 1'36''

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Aeschylus (c. 525-456 BC), the ''father of Greek tragedy,'' supposedly died in 456 BC after an eagle, mistaking his bald head for a rock, dropped a tortoise on it to break the shell.

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