Constant threat
Constant threat
My pending knee repairs feels like the sword of Damocles.
The Sword of Damocles - 1920 is rated/received certificates of: UK:A
Damocles
Damocles
Damocles As in "The sword of Damocles" For more information look in the related links I have made below.
To quote The Rocky Horror Picture Show:The Sword of Damocles is hanging over my headAnd I've got the feeling someone's gonna be cutting the thread.
A Sword of Damocles - 1914 was released on: USA: 22 January 1914 USA: 8 October 1916 (re-release)
A single hair.
Sword of Damocles
The cast of A Sword of Damocles - 1914 includes: Irving Cummings as Paul Hodgson - the Composer George Harcourt as Earle Winston Morris McGee as Samuelson Eleanor Woodruff as Ella Marvin
Damocles and his Sword are figures from Greek legend. Damocles was a courtier who was complimenting a tyrant. The tyrant offered to switch places with him for a day, to which Damocles agrees. The day seems to be going all well for Damocles...until dinner, when he looks up to see a very heavy and very sharp sword being suspended over his head by a hair. The sword is symbolic of the constant risk of life the tyrant faces every day because he is king. If someone says you have the Sword of Damocles over your head, it means your position puts you at constant risk of your life; death can come from anywhere at anytime. Kings and other heads of state always have to watch their backs because being in power makes them targets (it is not hard to look up royal and presidential assassinations). It could also apply more generally to a person in constant fear of being killed (such as an undercover operative in enemy territory).