Silver Tongue
relatable deaths from ancient times

gothicwhoreoine:

thoodleoo:

  • chrysippus: died laughing at his own joke
  • zeuxis: died laughing at his own art
  • aeschylus: stayed outside in his old age to avoid a prophecy that he would die from having something fall on his head, died when an eagle thought his bald head was a rock and dropped a turtle on him to break its shell
  • plato: partied too hard
  • empedocles: jumped into a volcano to prove that he was immortal
  • philitas of cos: was such an incredible pedant that he wasted away while studying erroneous word usage
  • saint lawrence: roasted alive during christian persecution under valerian, joked that he was done on one side and needed to be flipped over
  • didius julianus: purchased the roman empire in an auction, ruled for 9 weeks, executed for being ineffective leader
  • petronius arbiter: sentenced to death by nero, opened his veins while enjoying a sumptuous dinner party, edited his will to list all of the reasons he hated nero

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