The Myth of Gyges and the Possibility of AltruismGitsoulis, Chrysoula
As a result, those who practice justice are doing so involuntarily.If they thought that they could get away with injustice without suffering punishment, they would surely do so. To illustrate this point, Glaucon brings up the myth of theRing of Gyges. This magic ring bestows upon its owner ...
Seeing Citizens: Rereading Gyges's Ring of Invisibility The myth of the ring of Gyges' ancestor in Book II of Plato's Republic is intended as a provocation by Glaucon, who narrates it, and by Plato as the external narrator exploring questions of civic justice. A ring that makes the (un...
The first (period) stretches from the beginning of mankind (the creation) to the first cataclysm [i.e. the flood of Ogyges].[23] The primordial ádelon (obscure) period ended with the flood of Ogyges and what followed was the beginning of the mythikón (mythical) period. Varro dated th...
and Hermes was indeed venerated as a protector of flocks and herds –seemingly a more fundamental or primitive aspect of his rôle as guardian of wealth and trade. In the myth of Zeus’ love forIo, tranformed by Hera into a cow, he sends Hermes in the guise of a shepherd to slay th...
In 1978, Alfred North Whitehead wrote that “the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.” And here we have his most famous work: The Republic PDF Summary.
. Diarmuid is paralleled by another Fenian myth with a character who loves Fionn’s intended woman and ‘takes flight’, calledDerg Corra. He, like Diarmuid is hunted down by Fionn using his (‘Odinnic’) divinatory power and finally discovered hiding in a tree, seemingly out of his mind...
Flaubert refers to Karagöz (‘Black Eye’), the hero of the Turkish puppet theatre, which he saw on his trip to the Orient in 1849–1851. In Greek myth, Philoctetes lit the funeral pyre of Hercules. The Colonnade of the Seven Echoes was located on the eastern edge of the sacred prec...
THE PLATONIC MYTH OF GYGES AND THE CONCEPT OF JUSTICE AND INJUSTICE IN MODERN-DAY SPORT AND THE CONTEMPORARY WORLDGongaki, KonstantinaElectryone