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    a matter for readers. Other parallels have been drawn with the Ring of Gyges in Plato's Republic, which conferred invisibility, though there is no suggestion...
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    University Press. p. 89. ISBN 978-0-674-78925-8. Christopher Roosevelt (2009). The Archaeology of Lydia, from Gyges to Alexander. Cambridge University Press....
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    "with a happy ending". Plato's Republic tells the story of the Ring of Gyges that gave its owner the power of invisibility, as Tolkien's One Ring did...
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    Expedition. Retrieved 14 March 2023. Roosevelt, Christopher (2009). The archaeology of Lydia, from Gyges to Alexander. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-62983-7...
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    also for its own sake. To demonstrate the problem, he tells the story of Gyges, who – with the help of a ring that turns him invisible – achieves great...
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  • The character was voiced by Terrence C. Carson from 2005 to 2013, with Christopher Judge taking over the role in 2018's continuation, also titled God of...
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  • Magical rings occur in classical legend, in the form of Plato's Ring of Gyges which grants the power of invisibility to its wearer, though there is no...
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    defeated the Lydians and captured the Lydian capital, Sardis; the Lydian king Gyges died during this attack. After sacking Sardis, Tugdammi led the Cimmerians...
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    city of Sardis except for its citadel, and Gyges died during this attack. The Neo-Assyrian sources blamed Gyges's death on his own hubris, that is on his...
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    Studies. Boston: Christopher Publishing House 1953, pp. 119–124. Grondin, Jean (2010). "Gadamer and the Tübingen School". In Gill, Christopher; Renaud, François...
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    fictional depictions of Invisibility is the Ring of Gyges described by Plato. According to the legend, Gyges of Lydia was a shepherd in the service of King...
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  • Deindividuation Discrimination Flaming (Internet) Internet troll Ring of Gyges The Invisible Man Suler, John (June 2004). "The Online Disinhibition Effect"...
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    allegories and metaphors from older traditions, as he did with the story of Gyges. This led a number of scholars to suggest possible inspiration of Atlantis...
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  • Yew: The Philosopher King". Time. Retrieved 30 March 2023. Sherman, Christopher. "'Coolest dictator' to 'philosopher king,' Nayib Bukele's path to reelection...
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  • evil. The corrupting power of the Ring has been compared to the Ring of Gyges in Plato's Republic, which gave the power of invisibility and so tempted...
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    1985, p. 94-55. Spalinger, Anthony J. (1978). "The Date of the Death of Gyges and Its Historical Implications". Journal of the American Oriental Society...
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  • attacked the kingdom of Lydia, whose king Gyges contacted the Neo-Assyrian Empire beginning in 667 BCE. Gyges soon defeated the Cimmerians in 665 BCE without...
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    Efforts have been made to identify him with various individuals, notably Gyges, a king of Lydia in the early 7th century BC, but many scholars do not believe...
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  • aus der Geschichte des griechischen Geistes. Halle: Niemeyer. Gill, Christopher (1979). "Plato and politics. The Critias and the Politicus". Phronesis...
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    a carpenter named Charon, expressing his indifference to the wealth of Gyges, the king of Lydia. There is nothing in those two fragments to suggest that...
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  • justice to others is never to one's benefit; he cited the mythical Ring of Gyges, which could make any man who wore it invisible and thus able to get away...
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  • Constancy, Asterie! – Horace consoles Asterie on the absence of her lover Gyges, and warns her not to be unfaithful to her own vows. III.8, Martis caelebs...
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  • Thrasymachus' challenge, recounts a myth of the magical ring of Gyges. According to the myth, Gyges becomes king of Lydia when he stumbles upon a magical ring...
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  • The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought. Edited by Christopher Rowe and Malcolm Schofield, 559–584. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press...
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    Cambridge Univ. Press. ISBN 0521387604. OCLC 1068093421. Stokes, Michael Christopher (2005). Dialectic in action: an examination of Plato's Crito. Classical...
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    Ashurbanipal (category Gyges of Lydia)
    western Anatolia, ruled by Gyges. After allegedly receiving advice from the Assyrian national deity Ashur in a dream, Gyges sent his diplomats to ask Ashurbanipal...
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  • ISBN 978-0-8020-9538-1 (paper); ISBN 978-1-4426-9254-1 (e-pub). Bobonich, Christopher. 2002. "Philosophers and Non-Philosophers in the Phaedo and the Republic...
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  • Göteborg 1960, p. 145–162. Malcolm Schofield: The Laws' two projects. In: Christopher Bobonich (Ed.): Plato's Laws, Cambridge 2010, p. 12–28, esp. 12–15. Leonardo...
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    in A Companion to Classical Receptions, edited by Lorna Hardwick and Christopher Stray, pp. 13–25. John Wiley & Sons, 2011. ISBN 9781444393774. Burkert...
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    University Press, 1993. ISBN 0300056990. Plato, The Symposium, trans. by Christopher Gill. London: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 0140449272. Plato, The Symposium, trans...
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