Æsʹchylus (Greek, Aισχνλoζ),

the most sublime of the Greek tragic poets. He wrote 90 plays, only 7 of which are now extant. Æschylus was killed by a tortoise thrown by an eagle (to break the shell) against his bald head, which it mistook for a stone (B.C. 535–466). See Horace, Ars Poetĭca, 278.