Damocles (ˈdæməˌkliːz) n (Classical Myth & Legend)classical mytha sycophant forced by Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, to sit under a sword suspended by a hair to demonstrate that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was. See alsoSword of Damocles ...
Damocles: Damocles is Greece tyrant Dior nixiusi Chong-Chen in the myth, he often says the Emperor themselves in order to please the emperor. On one occasion, Dior nixiusi he sat on the imperial throne, head hung on a put with only a break with a sword, to tell him, despite her thr...
Explore the ''Sword of Damocles,'' a myth from ancient Greece. Discover how an unusual deal between a greedy man named Damocles and a ruler named...
@browncoat - There is a version of the original myth where Midas, after being cured of the Golden Touch, happens to be asked to judge a music competition between gods. When he picks one over the other, the loser curses him by saying "he must have the ears of an ass!" and that's...
However, it never developed into more than a lab project — possibly because the device’s weight required it to be suspended from the ceiling on a mechanical arm like a periscope. (Hence the “Sword of Damocles” name, a reference to the Roman myth about a sword which hangs above a per...
Yes, the constellation Leo got its name because of the myth of the Nemean Lion. Hera felt guilty about the lion's death, so she turned it into a constellation so that it would always be remembered. What does the Nemean Lion represent? The Nemean Lion represents many things, including wild...
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Charlemagne’s sword; buried with him. [Fr. Lit.: Brewer Dictionary, 594]Marmorie Grandoyne’s sabre. [Fr. Lit.: The Song of Roland]Merveilleuse Doolin of Mayence’s remarkably sharp sword. [Fr. Lit.: Wheeler, 241]Mimung magic sword lent by Wittich to Siegfried. [Norse. Myth.: Whee...
An oversized blade hangs like a sword of Damocles over visitors to the OK. “Shiv” is the title, American prison slang for an improvised knife. It stands for the precarious situation of artists and activists in Russia who, like Tolokonnikova herself, live in constant fear of persecution by ...
20. Cesarani, ‘Challenging the ‘Myth of Silence,’’ 29. 21. Ibid., 29–30. 22. Boyer, By the Bomb’s Early Light, 293. 23. Ibid., 291. 24. Wear, “Nuclear Denial Disorder,” 215. 25. Hinton, Nine Wartime Lives, 18. 26. See note 24. Wear, ‘Nuclear Denial Disorder’ 21...