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The Sword of Damocles is a symbolic sword from the Greek parable about the fictional courtier Damocles.
Sword of Damocles may also refer to:
Music
edit- "The Sword of Damocles", a song from the 1973 musical The Rocky Horror Show
- "Sword of Damocles Externally", a song by Lou Reed from the 1992 album Magic and Loss
- "Sword of Damocles", a song from the 2014 Judas Priest album Redeemer of Souls
- "Sword of Damocles" (Rufus Wainwright song), 2018
Film and television
edit- The Sword of Damocles (film), 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.
Other
edit- The Sword of Damocles (virtual reality), the first virtual reality system