Ring Of Gyes Summary

The story of the Ring of Gyes is most simply a story about a Shepard named Gyes who finds a ring with a special power. There was an earthquake on his property and it left a big opening in his land. Gyes eventually when in to this opening on his property finding a hallow, bronze horse with a dead man wearing nothing but a golden ring. Gyes took this ring and wore it to a gathering of Shepard’s. While there he turn the ring on his finger and became invisible, and the shepherds around his started to talk about his as if he wasn’t there. Using the invisibility power of the ring, Gyes seduces the queen and, with her help, murders the king and takes control of the kingdom. Glaucon uses the Ring of Gyes story to claim that no one is willingly a