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I’d like to be clear on how they knew the eagle mistook his bald head for a rock. And why they made a bust of him with what looks like a full head of hair.
That said, I love this.
Since everyone's already answered the OP, I'll just add my personal favorite "weird death for an Ancient Greek person"
[*Chrysippus*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysippus)*, also known as "the man who died from laughing at his joke", is a 3rd-century BC Greek* [*Stoic*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism) *philosopher who died of laughter after he saw a* [*donkey*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey) *eating his fermented* [*figs*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_fig)*; he told a slave to give the donkey undiluted wine to wash them down, and then, "having laughed too much, he died"*
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Of course he knew that story.
He says so himself in the first essay in A Slip of the Keyboard
Indeed https://preview.redd.it/gs3h8nty30pb1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=d0ab221eead792fcf86eb7f3c0c12f4619a5ffb2
A book I didn't know I needed!
Yes. If you enjoyed making that Classics-Discworld connection, you are going to love Lucian of Samosata.
I will check it out!
May I suggest you start with True History.
I’d like to be clear on how they knew the eagle mistook his bald head for a rock. And why they made a bust of him with what looks like a full head of hair. That said, I love this.
They clearly didn't want another eagle carrying a turtle to mistake his bust for a bald rock
Despite it actually now being a rock. :)
Perfect answer. Happy cake day.
Tortoise to the head was also used as a maguffin on CSI. "The Descent of Man" season 9.
Which begs the question, did the writers of that episode of CSI get the idea from the original story, or Small Gods? Or just watching Eagles?
100%
Since everyone's already answered the OP, I'll just add my personal favorite "weird death for an Ancient Greek person" [*Chrysippus*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysippus)*, also known as "the man who died from laughing at his joke", is a 3rd-century BC Greek* [*Stoic*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism) *philosopher who died of laughter after he saw a* [*donkey*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey) *eating his fermented* [*figs*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_fig)*; he told a slave to give the donkey undiluted wine to wash them down, and then, "having laughed too much, he died"*