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The Ring of Gyges (956 words) |
 | 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. |
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Gyges - LoveToKnow 1911 (482 words) |
| 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. |
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