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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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barest skeletal structure of the same story to convey similar endings to their stories. Platos, 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. Plato Platos Gyges is a shepherd
who by virtue of his station in life spends much time alone. He appears to not get along with people overly well, for at the meeting of shepherds he
is not actively engaged with any of his fellow shepherds. They do discuss him, however. He is known to them and familiar enough that they speak of him,
but he is so "invisible" in this group that when he discovers that he literally is invisible according to the positioning of a ring on his finger, those around him
take no note that he is alternately appearing and disappearing. The experience is a telling one for Gyges, of course. It is
enlightening for him to be able to listen to his fellow shepherds conversations while they are unaware of his presence. He can hear exactly what they have to say
about him, without the veil of nicety associated with polite conversation. Platos Gyges discovered the ring during a supernatural event that took place
in a pasture where he was tending sheep. He alone witnessed the event, and he alone saw a dead, naked, larger-than-life body inside the belly of a dead horse.
This human form wore only a ring, which Gyges removed from the dead mans hand before leaving the place where the ground literally opened up before him. Once
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