Tradition holds that Aeschylus died when a bird dropped this reptile on his bald head to crack its shell
... in 
the sun one day when an eagle mistook the top of his bald head for a... [DOC] [TLE] Golden Eagle Fact Sheet - San Diego Zoo Global Library [PAR] Supposedly, the eagle mistook Pliny's bald head for a rock; As eagle's often do, 
the raptor dropped a tortoise on Pliny to break apart the shell; This unfortunate 
death had ... a house would fall on Aeschylus' head (and a tortoise's shell is its "
house") ...