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Categories: Articles with short description, Legendary Greek people, Mythological swords, 4th-century BC Syracusans

Damocles Sword of Damocles Damocles sword Damocle's sword Damoclean Sword

The Greek courtier to Dionysius the Elder who (according to legend) was condemned to sit under a naked sword that was suspended by a hair in order to demonstrate to him that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was (4th century BC) WordNet 3.0

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Damocles is a character who appears in a anecdote commonly referred to as "the sword of Damocles", an allusion to the imminent and ever-present peril faced by those in positions of power. Wikipedia

Figure featured in an ancient Greek moral anecdote Wikidata

A courtier said to have lived at the court of Dionysius II of Syracuse. Wiktionary

IS A

courtier

DESCRIBED BY SOURCE

Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

The Nuttall Encyclopædia

NAMED AFTER

Damocles

OCCUPATION

politician

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