Phalaris

(554 BC fl.)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Phalaris, Tyrant of Agrigentum, 6th cent. B.C. LBT ID: Phala554 VIAF ID: 79118720 LOC ID: n84121462
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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.
REFERENCES TO Phalaris: William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. II. 1752-1761 Found 1: ¶ 14 Ch. XII. 1779-1786 Found 1: ¶ n1 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1819 Found 1: ¶ 5