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Sword of Damocles

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Sword of Damocles

Summary

Sword of Damocles is a fictional sword[1]. It draws 2,111 Wikipedia views per month (fictional_sword category, ranking #1 of 6).[2]

Key Facts

  • Sword of Damocles's image is recorded as La doctrine des moevrs, tiree de la philosophie des stoiques, representee en cent tableavx et expliqvee en cent discovrs pour l'instruction de la ieunesse (1646) (14747984904).jpg[3].
  • Sword of Damocles's instance of is recorded as fictional sword[4].
  • Sword of Damocles's instance of is recorded as anecdote[5].
  • Damocles is named after Sword of Damocles[6].
  • Sword of Damocles's Commons category is recorded as Sword of Damocles[7].
  • Sword of Damocles's participant is recorded as Damocles[8].
  • Sword of Damocles's participant is recorded as Dionysius I of Syracuse[9].
  • Sword of Damocles's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Sword-of-Damocles[10].
  • Sword of Damocles's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/120wxb5n[11].
  • Sword of Damocles's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/1220wd_v[12].
  • Sword of Damocles's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 1939653[13].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for Sword of Damocles include Operation Damocles[14], a covert operation[15], in Israel[16].

Why It Matters

Sword of Damocles draws 2,111 Wikipedia views per month (fictional_sword category, ranking #1 of 6).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17]

Entities named for it include Operation Damocles[14], a covert operation[15], in Israel[16].

Related Entities

Dionysius I of Syracuse

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [15] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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