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Greek myth containing a ring?
Does anyone know of a Greek Myth that concerns or contains a ring? It only even needs to be a mention. Just needs to be something about a ring in there. It can be a ring of fire, and ring of trees, or the jewelery ring, whatever. Thanks if you can help
-Gabby
6 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Is it the ring of Polykrates you are thinking about? It's a legend more than a myth.
The story goes that Polykrates, the ruler of Samos, is visited by a friend, and he boasts about his luck. The friend warns him repeatedly not to annoy the gods, as every bad news that is coming in is balanced by one of luck and success, until Polykrates, to placate the gods, throws his most valuable possession, a ring, into the sea. A few hours later the cook brings the ring back to him, he had found it in a fish he had bought. The friend leaves quickly, in order not to be caught in the upheaval he is sure to be imminent.
Inevitably fortune turns against Polykrates, he is captured by the Persians and crucified.
Source(s): Herodot - AnpadhLv 61 decade ago
Between the world of the living and that of the dead there are, it is said, great rivers and dread streams. First, greatest and outermost is Oceanus, which winds about the earth and the sea with nine rings, but is also a subterranean river. The river Styx (river of Hate), which is a primordial figure too (daughter of Oceanus), is a branch of Oceanus and a tenth part of his water is allotted to her. So Styx, which flows out from a rock, is the tenth ring, though some say that Styx itself corrals the souls in the Underworld with nine rings.
- 1 decade ago
in one myth zeus gives a sirl a saphire ring that belongs to hara.hara puts some kind of curse or something on her and then the godess of love helps the girl.
- TimaeusLv 61 decade ago
The reference is from Plato-- the story of a ring that rendered its wearer invisible.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
atlantis was in the shape of rings with the same center