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The Sword of Damocles is a symbolic sword from the Greek parable about the fictional courtier Damocles.

Contents

• Music
• Film and television
• Other
• See also

Sword of Damocles may also refer to:

Music

• "Sword of Damocles" (song), by Rufus Wainwright, 2018
• "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

Film and television

• 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

• The Sword of Damocles (virtual reality), the first virtual reality system
• The Sword of Damocles: A Story of New York Life, a 1881 book by Anna Katharine Green

See also

• Damocles (disambiguation)

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