[DOC] [TLE] Sword of Damocles - Wikipedia [PAR] Damocles is a figure featured in a single moral anecdote commonly referred to as 
"the Sword of ... According to the story, Damocles was pandering to Dionysius, 
his king, and exclaimed to ... upon creation were "The sword of Damocles is 
hanging over my head, and I've got the feeling someone's gonna be cutting the 
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When Damocles agreed, Dionysius seated him on a golden couch ... his life 
made it impossible for him to savor the opulence of the feast or enjoy the servants
. ... at the blade dangling above him, he asked to be excused, saying he... [DOC] [TLE] Damocles | Define Damocles at Dictionary.com [PAR] Ovarian cancer is still dangling over my head like the sword of Damocles. ... He 
had Damocles served with a sumptuous feast and ordered his servants to ... 
Dionysius seated him at a banquet with a sword suspended above his head by a
... [DOC] [TLE] 'Sword Of Damocles' Reference Sometimes Misused : NPR [PAR] Aug 19, 2011 ... He joins Melissa Block to tell the parable of the "sword of Damocles"  and ... 
hearing about a lot of "swords of Damocles" hanging over the heads of ... 
MELISSA BLOCK, host: This summer, we've noticed that the debate over the debt 
crisis ... Dionysius to be allowed to leave the throne and to go back to his... [DOC] [TLE] DIONYSUS (Dionysos) - Greek God of Wine & Festivity (Roman ... [PAR] Dionysus was the ancient Greek god of wine, vegetation, pleasure, festivity, ... 
After his birth from the thigh of Zeus, Dionysos was first entrusted to the care .... "
After Hera inflicted madness upon him, he wandered over Aigyptos (Egypt) and 
Syria. .... Bassaros God, of universal might, whom swords and blood and sacred 
rage... [DOC] [TLE] Free Flashcards about ANCIENT HISTORY - StudyStack [PAR] A SON OF EITHER HERMES OR DIONYSUS, PRIAPUS WAS A FERTILITY GOD 
OF THIS CIVILIZATION, EGYPT .... IN 423 B.C., CRATINUS TOOK THE 
FESTIVAL PRIZE WITH THE PLAY "THE .... HE WAS SEATED WITH A SWORD 
DANGLING ABOVE HIS HEAD AT A FEAST HOSTED BY DIONYSIUS, 
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the subreddit. ... King Dionysius offered his seat in retort, and Damocles accepted
. ... hair so it dangled above Damocles' head while he sat the throne. ... Instead of 
a single sword dangling above a head however, Martin put a... [DOC] [TLE] Trumping the Sword of Damocles  Medium [PAR] Mar 19, 2015 ... As he explains, the process of diagnosing a criminal psychopath involves .... 
Dionysius gestures to the sword suspended by a single horsehair just ... to a 
lavish feast, with the sword dangling precariously above his head. ... Donald 
Trump, one of the most enterprising peddlers of this theory, was sitting just a... [DOC] [TLE] Plutarch  Life of Caesar [PAR] Oct 21, 2013 ... 4 And so it was that, at a later time, in his reply to Cicero's "Cato," he himself ... 
and see him scratching his head with one finger, I cannot think that this man ... by 
them, and regarded as above all others worthy of his kinship with Marius. ... 
drawn swords and threatened Caesar as he was leaving the senate. [DOC] [TLE] available for download - The Internet Classics Archive - MIT [PAR] To Cadmus all praise I offer, because he keeps this spot hallowed, his daughter's 
... mother, and brandishing the thyrsus, with ivy-wreathed head, he worships 
Dionysus. .... the awful penalty of hanging, this stranger's wanton insolence, 
whoe'er he be? .... the son of Semele; first of all the blessed gods at

Question: He was seated with a sword dangling above his head at a feast hosted by Dionysius
Answer: Damocles