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Gyges and His Ring
Gyges und sein Ring [Friedrich Hebbel]
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Übersetzung für 'Gyges' von Englisch nach Deutsch

Gyges and His Ring
Gyges und sein Ring [Friedrich Hebbel]lit.theatreF
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  • Gyges und sein Ring [Friedrich Hebbel] = Gyges and His Ring
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Anwendungsbeispiele Englisch
  • Gyges returns and is surprised no to find the King, but Pythia takes him by the hand, bids him put on the armour left by Candaules and foretells that he will soon be king.
  • 652 BC for the reign of Gyges. Herodotus 1.16, 1.25, 1.86 gave reign lengths for Gyges' successors, but there is uncertainty about these as the total exceeds the timespan between 652 (probable death of Gyges, fighting the Cimmerians) and 547/546 (fall of Sardis to Cyrus the Great).
  • Gyges reveals his true identity to Nyssia and expects to be executed.
  • The main source for Gyges is Herodotus, whose account may be traced to the poet Archilochus of Paros.
  • Horace consoles Asterie on the absence of her lover Gyges, and warns her not to be unfaithful to her own vows.

  • King Candaules of ancient Lydia, according to the story, conceived a plot to show his unaware naked wife to his servant Gyges.
  • "Erupa gyges" is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Herbert Druce in 1900. It is found in Colombia.
  • The three Hundred-Handers were named Cottus, Briareus and Gyges.
  • Gyges married the queen as she had insisted but many Lydians did not at first accept him as their ruler.
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