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	The Ring of Gyges
		Gyges was a shepherd who found a dead man lying in cave wearing nothing but a gold ring.Gyges helped himself to the ring and wore it to the next monthly meeting of the local shepherds.
		Gyges got himself appointed an emissary to the king.
		If Gyges had been a just man, perhaps he would have destroyed the ring, knowing that no one, not even one most inclined to justice, could use it justly.
	www.aletheia.fsnet.co.uk /cache/gyges.html (956 words)

	Gyges - LoveToKnow 1911
		Gyges was the son of Dascylus, who, when recalled from banishment in Cappadocia by the Lydian king Sadyattes - called Candaules "the Dog-strangler" (a title of the Lydian Hermes) by the Greeks - sent his son back to Lydia instead of himself.
		Gyges soon became a favourite of Sadyattes and was despatched by him to fetch Tudo, the daughter of Arnossus of Mysia, whom the Lydian king wished to make his queen.
		Plato made Gyges a shepherd, who discovered a magic ring by means of which he murdered his master and won the affection of his wife (Hdt.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Gyges (482 words)

	Gyges of Lydia
		Gyges, was the founder of the third or Mermnad dynasty of Lydian kings and reigned from 687 to 652 BC (according to H Gelzer.
		Gyges was the son of Dascylus, who, when recalled from banishment in Cappadocia by the Lydian king Sadyates--called Candaules "the Dog-strangler" (a title of the Lydian Hermes) by the Greeks--sent his son back to Lydia instead of himself.
		Plato made Gyges a shepherd, who discovered a magic ring by means of which he murdered his master and won the affection of his wife.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/gy/Gyges_of_Lydia.html (462 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Gyges
		The tyrant Gyges was the founder of the Mermnadae dynasty, which lasted from c.700 BC to 550 BC The little kingdom grew to an empire in the chaos that had been left after the fall of the Neo-Hittite kingdom.
		Plato recounts the myth of Gyges in a discussion of the meaning of justice: Socrates is...
		The Smyrneis was a quasi-epic on the battle against Gyges, with elaborate proemium and ample narrative with speeches...
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Gyges (1141 words)

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		Gyges' action was in conformity with the social institutions of Lydia which had many matriarchal traits, but was repugnant to the Greeks who put a great stress on the patriarchal practices they had rather recently adopted.
		In Plato Gyges appears as a mythical character, the type of the perfect villain who, having discovered a ring that gave invisibility, felt free from all moral scruples.2 With the help of this ring Gyges seduced the king's wife and then in agreement with her killed the king and seized the throne.
		Gyges, son of Daskylos, was the favorite among the hoplite bodyguards of King Kandaules.
	saturniancosmology.org /files/homer/usurp.txt (2059 words)

	Gyges of Lydia
		The Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus, who wrote two centuries after the death of Gyges, tells in the first book of Histories that Lydia was once ruled by a man named Candaules or Myrsilus, and that his wife ordered Gyges to kill the king.
		Gyges initiated the policy that was to continue for more than a century: while attacking the Greek towns in Asia, he gave lavish presents to the sanctuaries at the mainland:
		It was one of Gyges' many political uses of gold and silver, which was conveniently found in the river Pactolus near Sardes.
	www.livius.org /men-mh/mermnads/gyges.html (868 words)

	Croesus, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		Gyges entreated her not to impose on him such a choice, but he could not move her more than he had moved Candaules when the whole affair was started.
		But at the time, Gyges had all reasons to be grateful to the oracle, and that is why he is reported to have been the first foreigner, after King Midas, to send many valuable offerings in silver and gold to Delphi.
		Gyges, who reigned thirty-eight years, took the city of Colophon and started a long war against Miletus that was inherited by his successors, until peace was agreed between Thrasybulus, ruler of Miletus, and Gyges' great grandson Alyattes, contemporary of King Periander, under whose reign Arion 2 was rescued by a dolphin.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Croesus.html (5505 words)

	Sardis in Mythology
		Gyges is one of the famous names of this period.
		Gyges was to hide where she could not see him, but would have her back turned.
		The reign of Gyges was indeed a remarkable one.
	www.istanbulportal.com /Anatolia/Sardis.aspx (1662 words)

	Historical Causation in Herodotus
		Candaules, anxious that his servant Gyges should believe that Candaules' wife was the most beautiful woman in the world, arranged for him to see her undressing.
		Gyges agreed, and together, servant and wife, murdered Candaules and seized the throne.
		Gyges tells his master: "From olden times that which is good has been sought out by men, and it is necessary to learn from them.
	www.tulane.edu /~august/thescla.htm (720 words)

	Candaules, his wife, and Gyges
		Gyges, since he was unable to avoid it, consented, and when bedtime came, Candaules brought him to the room.
		There was nothing unusual in his being asked to attend upon the queen; so Gyges answered the summons without any suspicion that she knew what had occurred on the previous night.
		Thus Gyges usurped the throne and married the queen.
	www.livius.org /he-hg/herodotus/hist14.html (885 words)

	GYGES - Online Information article about GYGES
		Gyges was the son of Dascylus, who, when recalled from banishment in See also:
		Gyges soon became a favourite of Sadyattes and was despatched by him to fetch Tudo, the daughter of Arnossus of See also:
		RING (O.E. hring; a word common to Teutonic languages; and probably cognate with the Lat.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /GUI_HAN/GYGES.html (647 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 316 (v. 2)
		gyges.) [L. (ruyai?/), daughter of Amyntas I. and sister of Alexander I.
		The only thing worthy of mention in the reign of Gyges is, that the Lydians were at first disinclined to submit to him ; but an oracle from Delphi established his authority, in gratitude for which he sent magnificent presents to the temple.
		He carried on various wars with the cities of Asia Minor, such as Miletus, Smyrna, Colophon, and Magnesia.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1424.html (817 words)

	Brown Classical Journal
		For example, Joseph Wells argued that “Gyges was not a Lydian at all, but a Cimmerian invader; that he, or perhaps his father, was taken into the service of the old Lydian monarchy, that the new-comers soon found that they preferred to possess, and not to defend, the land of their masters” (Wells 1923: 22).
		Gyges was a respected soldier, but none of the literary traditions documenting his ascension depict Gyges as the leader of disaffected troops or a populist party.
		Gyges was a rich tyrant, but the literary tradition documenting his coup does not emphasize his acumen as a businessman; Gyges did not buy the throne.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/Classics/bcj/16-03.html (2926 words)

	Plato's Republic - Gyges' ring
		It is the king himself, so proud of his beloved wife's beauty, who arranges for Gyges to see her naked in their bedroom so that he may judge by his own eyes that she is the most beautiful woman in the world.
		First comes the description of Gyges initial state, of the nature he lives in and of the trip he is led to make in the depths of it.
		Gyges may think he has become invisible once he puts himself under the scalpel of science, and he may be for his fellow prisoners who don't care for the light of the sun, but he is not for the judges above, who will some day seal his fate and turn his "chance" around.
	plato-dialogues.org /tetra_4/republic/gyges.htm (4394 words)

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		In answer to the question as to why one might obey were one in possession of Gyges' Ring, Glaucon's answer would be that not only would one have no reason to obey but, moreover, one would not obey.
		The notion that one would necessary act unjustly in possession of Gyges' Ring only holds true if one accepts that by nature man is unjust or is prone to wrong-doing.
		As such, even in possession of Gyges' Ring, the educated man would act justly as he ``would be his own best protector, because he would be afraid that by doing wrong he was doing himself a grave and lasting injury.'' [p.
	www.bilkent.edu.tr /~fast/gyges.html (697 words)

	The Disappear-Ring: How "privacy" protects the Left
		Legend has it that a shepherd named Gyges came into possession of a magical ring which, when he turned the stone toward the inside of his hand, made him invisible.
		Gyges used this power to murder King Candaules of Lydia and assume the throne for himself.
		Imagine, for example, that the manager of a radio station engages in lewd acts with a young intern in the workplace, and then gives her a somewhat lucrative full-time job, for which she is entirely unqualified.
	shinbone.home.att.net /gyges.htm (1661 words)

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		As we have seen, the Greeks were not so much impressed by Gyges' treachery against his former master as they were outraged by his marriage with the widowed queen, a step which not only was not immoral according to the customs of Lydia, but was necessary in order to make Gyges a king.
		It is a fact that the Thespiodes of the sanctuary of Klarion at Kolophon intermarried with the dynasty of the Herakleidai that Gyges had overthrown; it is also a fact that Klarion was in competition with the Artemision of pro-Lydian Ephesos.
		Gyges had a particularly strong bond with Ephesos, which became the main center of Lydian economic activities on the coast.
	www.metrum.org /gyges/homgyg.htm (2247 words)

	Herodotus: Book One
		Gyges spies on the queen, who notices him; she does not let on (10).
		Gyges and his son Ardys both invaded Miletus, a major Greek city on the coast of Asia Minor.
		Cyrus fulfilled the prophecy dooming the descendants of Gyges, and himself misinterpreted the oracle (91).
	academic.reed.edu /humanities/Hum110/Hdt/Hdt1.html (2790 words)

	Why Are We Just?
		The story of the ring of Gyges, as related by Glaucon in Book II of Plato's Republic, is meant to show that only the fear of consequences restrains a person from committing injustice, and that injustice is more profitable.
		In the story of the ring of Gyges, which expounds upon Thrasymachus’ viewpoint, a human being is assumed to be a savage creature, always intending to get the most for himself by any means necessary - only acting justly for the sake of convenience or reputation.
		The story of Gyges’ ring and the arguments of Thrasymachus tell us more about the personalities of Gyges and Thrasymachus, respectively, than about any universal tendencies in human nature, and we must be careful of drawing broad conclusions from such examples.
	wso.williams.edu /~rbhattac/whyarewejust.html (966 words)

	Plato's Ring Of Gyges
		The Ring of Gyges The story of the Ring of Gyges is an excerpt from book two of Plato's The Republic, in which Glaucon disagrees with Socrates and insists that people act moral because they lack the power to behave otherwise.
		Plato was born in 429 B.C. in Athens, Greece, to Ariston and Perictione.
		Plato presided over his Academy in Athens until his death in 347 B.C. The Ring of Gyges is a story written by Plato in an attempt to force the reader to evaluate his or her own sense of morality.
	www.freeessays.cc /db/26/hmd198.shtml (899 words)

	Plato's Ring in the Sudan: How Freedom Begets Isolation of the Soul \| Dr. Jose Yulo \| May 8, 2006
		After noting the pattern with which he either gained and surrendered invisibility, Gyges opportunistically steals into the royal palace where he seduces the queen and, with her aid, does away with the king and usurps his thrown.
		Gyges, and man as a being, divorces himself from the internal and eternal moral judgment within his temporal body.
		Before Gyges decides to live and rule in spite of his community, he must first silence the better angels of his nature, those standards of rectitude which exist before and after an individual’s life.
	www.ignatiusinsight.com /features2006/jyulo_platosudan_may06.asp (2555 words)

	The Ring of Gyges
		Gyges was a shepherd who found a dead man lying in cave wearing nothing but a gold ring.
		Gyges helped himself to the ring and wore it to the next monthly meeting of the local shepherds.
		If Gyges had been a just man, perhaps he would have destroyed the ring, knowing that no one, not even one most inclined to justice, could use it justly.
	www.lclark.edu /~clayton/commentaries/gyges.html (908 words)

	Gyges
		Later Gyges noticed that when he wore the ring and turned it, he was invisible to the world.
		To quote Timmons, Conduct and Character, "In a famous passage from The Republic, Glaucon (one of the characters of the dialogue) argues to Socrates that, by nature, human beings are egoists strongly inclined to pursue their own self-interests.
		According to Gyges, they are good only to avoid punishment and to look good.
	www.walkupsway.com /Gyges.htm (1637 words)

	THE HISTORIES OF HERODOTUS (SELECTIONS)
		There was one of his bodyguard he was especially pleased with, Gyges son of Daskylos, and he used to share with this Gyges even his most important affairs, including great praise of the beauty of his wife, since he thought it so.
		Either he who planned this must perish, or you, who saw me naked and acted unlawfully." For a while Gyges was astonished at what she had said, but then he pleaded with her not to bind him by the necessity of making such a choice.
		Gyges was not released, and there was no escape for him at all: either he or Kandaules must die.
	www.geocities.com /jserraglio/texts/herodotu.htm (23274 words)

	Friends of the Salzburg Festival
		Gyges the fisher is the only person to stand aside from the rest: he abhors the parasitism of the fawning courtiers.
		Gyges opposes the idea but as the queen appears unexpectedly, he is forced to watch from a hiding place as Nyssia takes off her veil.
		Gyges obeys her, again having become invisible by wearing the ring, and stabs his friend Kandaules.
	www.festspielfreunde.com /english/frames/200205/ef_200205_14.htm (531 words)

	Plato, "The Myth of Gyges"
		Plato's Ring of Gyges: A solid discussion of why persons act justly and why people act in the ways they do, and that relation to how happiness is obtained is outlined in ethics lecture notes by Louise N. Walkup.
		Plato and his Dialogues arguing that the myth of the ring of Gyges attempts to excuse moral responsibility by invoking natural law.
		Theological Table Talk: The Ring of Gyges and the Imagination James P. Danaher and Seth Franco outline the role of the myth in Plato's philosophy from a Christian perspective and conclude that Plato's belief that reason could control the appetite in such a case is mistaken.
	philosophy.lander.edu /intro/gyges.shtml (2216 words)

	Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers, as She Goes to Bed
		Gyges hid behind a door in the queen's bedchamber with instructions to slip away when the Queen turned her back.
		Gyges did all as he had been told, but after he had seen the Queen's naked body, she herself glimpsed him as he fled from the room.
		The Queen instructed Gyges to hide behind a door in the Royal Bedchamber as he had done before, but when the King fell asleep, the Queen's revenge was carried out as Gyges pierced Candaules with a dagger.
	www.darkromance.com /dr-bod/dr-bod-0207/dr-bod-020722-candaules-etty.html (320 words)

	Philosophy For Kids
		The method I suggest for using these stories in the classroom is a modified form of something called “the Community of Inquiry.” It is a method developed by Matthew Lipman at the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children at Montclair State University in Upper Montclair, New Jersey.
		If Gyges had been a really good person before he got the ring, one might well expect him to use the ring as an aid in doing good things, not bad things.
		Gyges was a shepherd in the service of the ruler of Lydia.
	www.philosophyforkids.com /startup.shtml (5588 words)

	SparkNotes: The English Patient: Chapter IX
		The king was telling a man named Gyges of his wife's beauty, but she was so beautiful that the king wanted Gyges to see for himself.
		The next day, she called for Gyges and offered him one of two options: either to slay his friend the king and thus possess her and the kingdom, or to stand there and be slain immediately.
		Gyges kills the king and reigns with the queen for twenty-eight years.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/englishpatient/section9.rhtml (1675 words)

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		A man named Gyges, he explains, came upon a cave and, inside it, a skeleton wearing a ring.
		Gyges actually did woeful things once he got the ring -- seduced the queen, murdered the king and so on.
		A quick Google search shows that Gyges has been mentioned a few times in these newsgroups, but not often and not recently, so I thought this might be of interest.
	neil.franklin.ch /Usenet/rec.arts.books.tolkien/20040606_Bagels_and_the_Ring_of_Gyges (1665 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| The History of Herodotus by Herodotus
		When Gyges was established on the throne, he sent no small presents to Delphi, as his many silver offerings at the Delphic shrine testify.
		Besides this silver he gave a vast number of vessels of gold, among which the most worthy of mention are the goblets, six in number, and weighing altogether thirty talents, which stand in the Corinthian treasury, dedicated by him.
		As soon as Gyges was king he made an in-road on Miletus and Smyrna, and took the city of Colophon.
	classics.mit.edu /Herodotus/history.1.i.html (10917 words)

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