Comments on: Tragedy https://www.vianegativa.us/2025/12/tragedy/ Purveyors of fine poetry since 2003. Fri, 05 Dec 2025 23:22:24 +0000 hourly 1 By: Luisa A. Igloria https://www.vianegativa.us/2025/12/tragedy/#comment-121356 Fri, 05 Dec 2025 23:22:24 +0000 https://www.vianegativa.us/?p=73193#comment-121356 In reply to Dave Bonta.

If eagle, if vulture — equally possible I guess. Though my interest here is the story, as it involved the “father of tragedy.”

]]> By: Dave Bonta https://www.vianegativa.us/2025/12/tragedy/#comment-121331 Fri, 05 Dec 2025 14:10:41 +0000 https://www.vianegativa.us/?p=73193#comment-121331 I dunno, it just seems way more like lammergeier behavior to me. I just checked the Wikipedia article, and FWIW, the authors concur: “The Greek playwright Aeschylus was said to have been killed in 456 or 455 BC by a tortoise dropped by an eagle who mistook his bald head for a stone. If this incident did occur, the bearded vulture is a likely candidate for the ‘eagle’ in this story.”

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