Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Figures

    Gyges

    historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages

    Gyges son of Dascylus · Gyges the Lydian

    in the texts

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    Gyges, king of Lydia, said to be the first to be called 'tyrant,' used as a chronological marker for Homer.

    And Euphorion, in his work On the Aleuadae, places him in the time of Gyges, who began to reign from the eighteenth Olympiad, and whom he says was the first to be called "tyrant.
    book 1

    The HistoriesClassical · Greek

    Bodyguard of Candaules who became king of Lydia after killing him; founder of the Mermnadae dynasty

    Speaking thus, Gyges resisted:
    chapter 1
    ” Gyges stood awhile astonished at this;
    chapter 1
    When Gyges came, the lady addressed him thus:
    chapter 1

    RepublicClassical · Greek

    Lydian figure referenced as the descendant of the shepherd who found the ring of invisibility.

    The licence that I mean would be most nearly such as would result from supposing them to have the power which men say once came to the ancestor of Gyges the Lydian.
    chapter 2