01:190:205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Candaules, Croesus, Sophos
18 Mar 2016
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His son cambyses (wreck of a human being) wanted to take egypt stabbed apis cow (did not understand people"s nomoi: loses army/control. Persian/phoenician accounts of the origin of conflicts between east/west: whole idea of the book is to explain how the greeks got entangled with the persians. Candaules: the man who fell in love with his wife - Gyges, croesus" demise: gyges = bodyguard, candaules = overally in love with his wife and wants to show her off. His wife gives gyges option for her to kill him or for him to kill her husband. (apollo gives his blessing but says there will be a cost later) Tragic figure since it was already destined for him to fail/suffer. Transition from lydians to persians, the fall of croesus. Fall of croesus: overtakes a bunch of greek cities things go bad when solon arrives. Has complementary identities (known as a sophos). Athenians hired him to produce a set of laws.
