Aeschylus after the death of Phrynichus, one of his chief rivals, Aeschylus was the yearly favorite in the Dionysia, winning first prize in nearly every competition. In 472 BC, Aeschylus staged the production that included the "Persians", with Pericles serving as "choregos". In 458 BC, he returned to Sicily for the last time, visiting the city of Gela where he died in 456 or 455 BC. Valerius Maximus wrote that he was killed outside the city by a tortoise dropped by an eagle (possibly a lammergeier or Cinereous vulture, which do feed on tortoises by dropping them on hard objects) which
Philoctetes (Aeschylus play) do in Euripides' and Sophocles' versions. Dio does tell us that Odysseus' pleas and lies were not inappropriate for someone of Odysseus' heroic stature. According to Aspasius, Aeschylus' and Sophocles' Philoctetes attempted to hide his pain at first, but eventually the pain was too great and he was forced to scream. The chorus in the play is made up of men of Lemnos. In In Aeschylus' play, the men of Lemnos had not visited Philoctetes throughout his entire ten year time on the island. Philoctetes told the chorus his backstory of being abandoned by the Greeks. Dio considered Aeschylus' approach