Phalaris (Greek: Φάλαρις) was the tyrant of Akragas (now Agrigento) in Sicily in Magna Graecia, from approximately 570 to 554 BC. Phalaris was renowned for his excessive cruelty. Among his alleged …

Phalaris (died c. 554 bc) was the tyrant of Acragas (modern Agrigento), Sicily, notorious for his cruelty. He is alleged to have roasted his victims alive in a bronze bull, their shrieks representing the animal’s …

May 29, 2025 · Remembered by posterity as a brutal tyrant and the alleged sponsor of the inventor of one of antiquity's most diabolical execution devices, the Brazen Bull, Phalaris remains a figure of …

Flower: generally bisexual, minute; perianth vestigial; stamens generally 3; stigmas generally 2, generally plumose. Fruit: grain, sometimes achene- or utricle-like.

The most famous story about his cruelty is that of the bull of Phalaris, which is told by the Roman orator Cicero and the historian Diodorus of Sicily (who turns the story upside-down and makes Phalaris a …

Plant: Tufted, robust, deep-rooted temperate perennial grass, growing 1 to 2 m tall at maturity, and spreading by short underground stems (rhizomes). Main growth period autumn-winter-spring. Usually …

Phalaris, of *Acragas (Agrigento), the first important Sicilian tyrant (c. 570– c. 549). Of Rhodian descent (see rhodes), he exploited a building contract on the acropolis to acquire a body of adherents, seized …

Phalaris (Greek: Φάλαρις) was a tyrant who ruled the Greek colony of Acragas (modern Agrigento) in Sicily from approximately 570 to 554 BC.

On the fall of the tyrant, a few literary sources record that the people revolted and drove out Phalaris.17 Oth- ers say that it was Emmenes18 or Telemachos19 (both progenitors of the Emmenids and of …

Phalaris is a genus of flowering plants in the grass family. Species of Phalaris are distributed across all continents except Antarctica. They can be found in a broad range of habitats from below sea level to …