Influence
H. G. Wells' The Invisible Man has as its basis a retelling of the tale of The Ring of Gyges.
There is a reference to the Ring of Gyges in The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.
One comic story of The Spectre features a giant Ring of Gyges.
The character of Katherine Clifton also shares this story of Gyges and Candaules in the movie "The English Patient."
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“Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents- to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking blissfully and mysteriously contented, or the television parents, wisely and humorously solving problems, influence parents-to-be.”
—Ellen Galinsky (20th century)