Candaules Showing His Wife to Gyges is a small painting of the story of Candaules painted by Jacob Jordaens around 1646. It is in the collection of the...

Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers, as She Goes to Bed, rarely known as The Imprudence of Candaules, is...

Candaules often told his favourite bodyguard, Gyges, how beautiful the queen was and, thinking Gyges did not believe him, urged Gyges to contrive to see...

suggests that Gyges became the king of Lydia by overthrowing his predecessor, the king Candaules of the Heraclid dynasty. Gyges was helped in his coup against...

King Candaules of ancient Lydia, according to the story, conceived a plot to show his unaware naked wife to his servant Gyges. After discovering Gyges while...

his wife Catharina had been put to rest upon her death in 1659. One year after his death, Jordaens' son-in-law donated twenty-five Flemish pounds to the...

were King Candaules, who ordered his friend Gyges to hide behind a curtain from where he could admire his magnificent wife." According to Wyss, however...

linked to Jordaens' Candaules Showing His Wife to Gyges, which is dated 1646. The nude woman in the painting may successfully challenge the wife of Candaules...

Etty's career. Candaules is based on a story from Herodotus in which king Candaules arranges for his servant Gyges to spy on his wife Nyssia undressing...

that a website called peepingthong.com had become a depository of photos showing young women, many of them University of Victoria students, sitting down...

references range from the Trojan War of the 2nd millennium BC to the Peloponnesian War in his own lifetime, the essential scope of the entire work is a record...