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  2. Damocles - Wikipedia

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    Damocles [a] is a character who appears in a (likely apocryphal) anecdote commonly referred to as "the sword of Damocles", [1] [2] an allusion to the imminent and ever-present peril faced by those in positions of power.

  3. Tusculanae Disputationes - Wikipedia

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    The Tusculan Disputations is the locus classicus of the legend of the Sword of Damocles, [16] as well as of the sole mention of cultura animi as an agricultural metaphor for human culture. [17] [18] Cicero also mentions disapprovingly Amafinius, one of the first Latin writers on philosophy in Rome.

  4. Dionysius I of Syracuse - Wikipedia

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    Dionysius I is one of the central characters in the legend of the Sword of Damocles. [ 22 ] Dionysius I also appears to be mentioned in Dante 's Inferno (of the Divine Comedy ) (1308–21) as a tyrant who suffers in a river of boiling blood, although there is some dispute the Dionysius of reference may be his son, Dionysius II.

  5. Hiero (Xenophon) - Wikipedia

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    Hiero (Greek: Ἱέρων, Hiéron) is a minor work by Xenophon, set as a dialogue between Hiero, tyrant of Syracuse, Magna Graecia, and the lyric poet Simonides about 474 BC.

  6. The Sword of Damocles (virtual reality) - Wikipedia

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    The Sword of Damocles is widely misattributed as the name of the first AR (or VR) display prototype. According to Ivan Sutherland , this was merely a joke name for the mechanical system that supported and tracked (using attached wires) the actual HMD below it. [ 1 ]

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  8. Sword of Damocles (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    The Sword of Damocles, a 1920 British silent film directed by George Ridgwell; Sword of Damocles, a super weapon in the 1996 movie Escape from L.A. "Sword of Damocles" marking each of the kings in the Japanese TV series K "Sword of Damocles", the ninth episode of Survivor 45.

  9. Sword of Damocles (Rufus Wainwright song) - Wikipedia

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    "Sword of Damocles" is a song by Rufus Wainwright, released in October 2018. Wainwright made the song available for purchase after a premiere performance on The Late Late Show with James Corden on October 18, with a portion of proceeds benefiting voter registration efforts.