The Life of Aeschylus
Date Submitted: 12/26/2004 08:46:42
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 1 pages (356 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 1 pages (356 words)
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…his plays achieved first prize at the Greater Dionysia, which was the annual dramatic festival held in Athens. His first success was in 484 B.C. and he almost continuously won until his death. Aeschylus died in 456 B.C. at the age of seventy. Legend says that an while he was sitting outside one day an eagle flying overhead mistook his bald head for a rock and dropped a turtle on his head which killed him.
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