brazen bull

By some versions, she was burned within a Brazen bull.

King Solomon's "bronze sea"-basin stood on twelve brazen bulls, according to 1.

When Claude is unable to do so, Father Solomon locks him up in a large iron elephant brazen bull.

Phalaris himself is said to have been killed in the brazen bull when he was overthrown by Telemachus, the ancestor of Theron.

-The Brazen Bull was a hollow brass statue crafted to resemble a real bull.

Perillos of Athens invented the Brazen bull, a hollow brass container where the condemned would be locked as a fire was set underneath.

There was certainly a brazen bull at Agrigentum that was carried off by the Carthaginians to Carthage.

After Bobby fails when the hooks rip through his muscles, a brazen bull capsule closes around Joyce and incinerates her.

The brazen bull, bronze bull, or Sicilian bull, was a torture and execution device designed in ancient Greece.

The song In the Belly of the Brazen Bull gained place within the UK top ten albums chart.

An example from Archaic Greece is the story of the brazen bull proposed to Phalaris in the mid 6th century BC.

The Cribs announced the title of their fifth studio album as In the Belly of the Brazen Bull and its track-listing on 14 February 2012.

According to the Chronica caesaraugustana, Burdunellus, a Roman usurper, was roasted in a brazen bull by the king Alaric II in 497.

The Cribs' fifth album, In the Belly of the Brazen Bull produced by Dave Fridmann and Steve Albini was released on 7 May 2012.

In the Belly of the Brazen Bull was released on 7 May 2012 as the fifth studio album by British indie rock band The Cribs via Wichita Recordings.

Unlike the previous two singles released from In the Belly of the Brazen Bull, 'Come on, be a No-One' and 'Glitters Like Gold', 'Anna' did not receive a physical issue on vinyl.

In the 2011 film Red Riding Hood, an autistic boy named Claude is burned to death in a Brazen Bull shaped like an elephant in an attempt to force him to reveal the identity of a werewolf.

In his Brazen bull, said to have been invented by Perillos of Athens, the tyrant's victims were shut in and roasted alive by a fire kindled beneath while their shrieks represented the bellowing of the bull.

The same happened to Saint Antipas, Bishop of Pergamum during the persecutions of Emperor Domitian and the first martyr in Asia Minor, who was roasted to death in a brazen bull in AD 92.

The automaton, Apega, was one of the advancements in technology of the ancient Greco-Roman world used as implements of torture, along with other torture devices such as the cross, the wheel, and the brazen bull of Phalaris.

Telemachus was the leader of a 554 BC general uprising in the Greek city-state of Acragas, Sicily, which culminated in the overthrow of the cruel tyrant Phalaris, who was roasted to death in his own brazen bull.

Dinner is also accompanied by musicians, playing "fiddles, fifes, trombones, and a drum" and, though they seem to entertain all others present, the narrator likens it to horrible noises (at one point even mentioning the torture and execution device known as the brazen bull).

The Romans were reputed to have used this torture device to kill some Jews, as well as some Christians, notably Saint Eustace, who, according to Christian tradition, was roasted in a brazen bull with his wife and children by the Emperor Hadrian.

He was then quickly restored to his former prestige and reunited with his family; but when he demonstrated his new faith by refusing to make a pagan sacrifice, the emperor, Hadrian, condemned Eustace, his wife, and his sons to be roasted to death inside a brazen bull, in the year AD 118.