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The Sword of Damocles is widely considered to be the first virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) head-mounted display (HMD) system. It was created in 1968 by hall of fame computer scientist...
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"Judge no one happy until his life is over" is a familiar theme in Greek and Roman philosophical writing. [See .] One variant of this is , which is used to describe a sense of foreboding and might translate into English idiom as "...
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Definition: Cicero tells the story of the Sword of Damocles in his Tusculan Disputations. The story is based on a legend about the Syracusan tyrant Dionysius II and the fawning Damocles, who called Dionysius the most fortunate person ever.
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In the middle of this luxury Dionysius ordered that a shining sword, fastened from the ceiling by a horse-hair, ... The Roman politician and philosopher Cicero (1-6-43) tells the famous story about the Syracusan tyrant Dionysius II and his courtier Damocles, which he had read in the History of Timaeus of Tauromenium.
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THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES ... "That sword! that sword!" cried Damocles. He was so badly frightened that he dared not move. ... A Story of Robin Hood...
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The king, weary of Damocles' obsequious flattery, invited him to a banquet and seated him under a sword hung by a single hair, so as to point out to him the precariousness of his position. The idiom was first recorded in 1747. The same story gave rise to the expression hang by a thread...
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The story goes that Dionysius, in order to show Damocles the precarious nature of status and power, gave a banquet, and had a sword suspended above the head of Damocles by a single hair. The expression, "The Sword of Damocles" represents the ever-present perils that exist in life.
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Damocles was one of these. ... For directly above his head hung a sword, held to the ceiling by only a single horsehair. Its sharp blade glittered as it pointed right between his eyes. He started to jump up and run, but stopped himself, frightened that any sudden move might snap the thin thread and bring the sword down.
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We have yet again trashed the entire book and have started fresh. This is take 4. Please note that this is not the finished draft. Some errors may still be present. ... Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; ... Updated character list;
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