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Phalaris
(554 BC fl.)
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LOC:    Phalaris, Tyrant of Agrigentum, 6th cent. B.C.
LBT ID: Phala554    VIAF ID: 79118720    LOC ID: n84121462
SOURCES: Wikipedia; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
The tyrant of Acragas in Sicily remembered for broiling his victims in a brazen bull; a collection of fables was wrongly attributed to him until exposed by the scholar Richard Bentley.
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