The Gyges' Ring in Plato's Republic
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https://doi.org/10.47661/afcl.v15i30.46288Keywords:
Plato’s Republic, Gyges’ Ring, Glaucon’s Challenge, Lyric PoetryAbstract
Gyges narrative appears in Plato’s Republic (359b-360b), where Glaucon tells how Gyges become the ruler of Lydia in Asia Minor (Anatolia). Glaucon’s Challenge is the base to all further exposure of justice in Plato’s Republic. It will be through this Challenge that Glaucon will tell Socrates how to present justice proving it in all ways better than injustice. However, in passage 359d we have a difficulty to the direct identification of Gyges. Through this study we aim to present some proposals for the passage, using for this the lyrical and historical sources for a completed analysis of the Gyges’ passage. At the end of the article, we proposal an interpretation of the passage to solve the manuscript problem.References
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