2008/08/18 by Gabriel Danzig · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Classical Antiquity Studies #Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies #Historical and Linguistic Studies #Ptolemy's table of chords #Extant taxon #Rhetoric #Literature #History #Fragment (logic) #Classics #Philosophy #Art #Linguistics #Computer science
paper · doi:10.1017/s001738350800051x
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The story of Gyges has come down to us in several versions. These include a summary of a version recorded by Nicholas of Damascus, which may descend ultimately from the Lydian historian Xanthos; a fragment of a dramatic version by an unknown Greek author; a brief description by Plutarch; Justin's summary of a version by Pompeius Trogus; and a version by Ptolemy Hephaestion of Alexandria, summarized by Photius. But the most famous and oldest fully extant versions of the story are those told by Herodotus and Plato.