FALARIDE

Falaride

Very cruel tyrant of Agrigento, who died in 555 BC, was a lover of wisdom and wise men. Many times, however, proved to be human, maybe because its atrocities were for him a political order. A sculptor on behalf of Pericles (or Perillo), to ingratiate himself with the tyrant and make it fun, built a bronze bull, made sure to lock up a man, and put him to death in horrible tortures, for the fire that would be lighted outside, to heat the bronze; and the moans of the victim would come out of the mouth of as true bellows. Phalaris, instead of like the ugly gift, he was so outraged that he ordered to lock yourself the same author to experience the horrible tool. In fact Pericles died there in awful agony, suffering the fate that he had devised for others.

FALARIDE

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