Gyges
(Gr.)
“The ring of Gyges” has become a familiar metaphor in European literature. Gyges was a Lydian who, after murdering the King Candaules, married his widow. Plato tells us that Gyges descended once into a chasm of the earth and discovered a brazen horse, within whose open side was the skeleton of a man who had a brazen ring on his finger. This ring when placed on his own finger made him invisible. H (TG).
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Shortly: “The ring of Gyges” has become a familiar metaphor in European literature. Gyges was a Lydian who, a...