Brazen bull
TORTURE DEVICE COMMISSIONED BY PHALARIS
Perillos of Athens; Sicilian Bull; Bronze Bull; Brazen Bull; Phaleric Bull; Bull of Perillus
The brazen bull, also known as the bronze bull, Sicilian bull, or bull of Phalaris, was a torture and execution device designed in ancient Greece. According to Diodorus Siculus, recounting the story in Bibliotheca historica, Perilaus (or Perillus) of Athens invented and proposed it to Phalaris, the tyrant of Akragas, Sicily, as a new means of executing criminals.