Gyges
Americannoun
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Also Gyes one of the Hecatonchires.
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a shepherd who found a ring making its wearer invisible. Invited by the king of Lydia secretly to view his beautiful wife naked, Gyges was incited by her to kill the king and seize the throne. During his reign, allegedly, coinage was invented.
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"The problem isn't that behavioral profiles don't work. The problem is the utility of them, because they give us so many false positives," said Bongardt, who now heads The Gyges Group, a security firm.
From Reuters • Jun. 15, 2017
Plato told a tale of the Ring of Gyges that when put on would render you invisible.
From Time • Jul. 8, 2015
H. G. Wells’s novel The Invisible Man updated the Gyges story, demonstrating the corrupting temptations of invisibility and the way it can sever our sense of personal responsibility for our actions.
From Nature • Apr. 22, 2015
When Ball recounts the story of Gyges, he omits an important bit of context.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 6, 2015
When Gyges put on the ring, he found that it made him invisible.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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