Recently, we have a new TV series that branches off of the Lord of the Rings called the ring of power. What would you do if you had a ring that could turn you invisible?
Plato’s book “The Republic” ponders just that question with the ring of Gyges. What? Did Tolkien just rip off Plato or was Plato psychic and foresaw Tolkien and wrote about it 2000 years prior? Did Plato know about what Herodotus wrote about the ring of Gyges prior to his thought experiment?
I know, I know. I have more questions than answers. I think that is the way it goes with Classical studies. For this episode, I am going to go over some of Plato’s philosophy and where the Critias and Timeous fairs in his works. There is so much that needs to be known before understanding those two screenplays. I doubt that many will ever really know.
https://www.livius.org/sources/content/herodotus/candaules-his-wife-and-gyges/
https://www.plato-philosophy.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/gyges-a.pdf
http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/critias.html
http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/timaeus.html
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