Editing Gyges of Lydia (section)

==Influence on modern works==
* [[Théophile Gautier]] wrote a story entitled "Le roi Candaule" (published in 1844), which was translated by [[Lafcadio Hearn]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BuVFAQAAMAAJ |title = Le roi Candaule|last1 = Gautier|first1 = Théophile|last2 = France|first2 = Anatole|year = 1893}}</ref>
* "[[Tsar Kandavl]]" or "[[Le Roi Candaule]]" is a ''grand ballet'' with choreography by [[Marius Petipa]], and music by [[Cesare Pugni]], with a libretto by [[Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges]], based on the Herodotus version. It was first presented by the [[Mariinsky Ballet|Imperial Ballet]] in  [[St. Petersburg, Russia]], in 1868, with [[Henriette D'or]] as Queen Nisia, [[Felix Kschessinsky]] as King Candaules/Tsar Candavl, [[Lev Ivanov]] as Gyges and [[Klavdia Kantsyreva]] as Claytia.
* "''Le Roi Candaule''" is also the title of a comedy by [[Henri Meilhac]] and [[Ludovic Halévy]], loosely based on the ancient tale and presenting light sketches of [[Paris]]ian life in the 1860s and 1870s.
* German playwright [[Friedrich Hebbel]]'s 1856 tragedy ''Gyges und sein Ring'' ("Gyges and his Ring").
* In the novel ''[[Temporary Kings]]'', penultimate in [[Anthony Powell]]'s 12-volume ''[[A Dance to the Music of Time]]'', Candaules' exhibiting of his naked wife to Gyges and her discovery of it feature on a ceiling painting, attributed to Tiepolo, in a Venetian palace.  The story counterpoints themes of voyeurism and death in Powell's narrative.
* In the novel ''The [[English Patient]]'', and the film based on it, Count Almásy (himself a disciple of Herodotus) falls in love with a married woman (Katherine Clifton) as she tells Herodotus' version of the Gyges story around a campfire. The story is harbinger of their own tragic path.
*In the novel ''[[Hyperion (Simmons novel)|Hyperion]]'' by [[Dan Simmons]], one of the four evil constructs created by the Core and named by Councillor Albedo is called Gyges.
* One of the chapters in [[Robertson Davies]]' novel ''[[Fifth Business]]'' is called "Gyges and King Candaules". The protagonist, scholar Dunstan Ramsay; his lifelong "friend and enemy", the tycoon Percy "Boy" Staunton; and Staunton's wife Leola who had been Ramsay's childhood sweetheart are throughout the book  compared with, respectively, Gyges, King Candaules and the Queen of Lydia. In particular, in one scene where Staunton insists upon showing Ramsay nude photos of his wife, Ramsay tells him the ancient story as a warning (which Staunton ignores).
* In 1990 [[Frederic Raphael]] published ''The Hidden I, A Myth Revised'', a retelling of the story of Lydia, King Candaules and Gyges.<ref>[http://www.bookfever.com/Book_Listing/Raphael_Frederic_THE_HIDDEN_I_A_MYTH_REVISED_book_2130.html The Hidden I, A Myth Revised], bookfever.com</ref>