ESSAY ON: The Ring of Gyges: Plato and Herodotus

Number of Pages 5

This research paper: A 5 page paper comparing and contrasting these two authors’ accounts of the actions of Gyges of Lydia. Plato and Herodotus use the barest skeletal structure of the same story to convey similar endings with different morals. Plato’s, however, is written to encompass a much broader scope and in so doing, reveal some of the motivations that persuade the just to behave justly, the unjust to behave with injustice. Bibliography lists 3 sources.


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