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100 1 _aHahl, Jalmari,
_d1869-1929
245 1 0 _aKandaules
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-07-16
508 _aTapio Riikonen
520 _a"Kandaules : 3-näytöksinen näytelmä" by Jalmari Hahl is a play written in the early 20th century. Set in ancient Lydia, it centers on King Kandaules, his veiled Egyptian queen Arsinoë, the victorious general Gyges, and the seer-priest Farnakes, as war, religious rivalry, and the king’s worship of beauty and fortune strain court and city. Public triumph and private desire entwine as ceremony, oracles, and jealousy foreshadow a dangerous collision of love, power, and hubris. The opening of the play unfolds in Tyche’s temple courtyard by the Aegean: Farnakes prays to the sun god Sanson and warns against foreign gods; Mandane tries to sway Kandaules and is rebuffed; then a messenger announces Gyges has defeated the Myssians. Kandaules exalts Tyche, summons the veiled Arsinoë to crown Gyges, refuses the crowd’s plea to unveil her, and orders relief for storm-stricken citizens, while an oracle tells Gyges that admiration will lift him to the heights of ambition. Factions harden—priest against king, people stirred by demagogues, Mandane spreading doubt. At the start of the second act, in Arsinoë’s chambers, the queen prays to Isis and confides her loneliness to Nitokris; Mandane intrudes with accusations and insults before Filebos warns the king is near. Kandaules arrives, speaks of elevating Gyges, defends his creed of beauty, confesses his past with Mandane and his cruelty to Filebos (whom he now frees), and begins recounting how he sought and “found” Arsinoë—where the excerpt cuts off. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cHämeenlinna: Arvi A. Karisto Oy, 1915
653 _aGyges, King of Lydia, -approximately 648 B.C. -- Drama
653 _aCandaules, King of Lydia, -approximately 685 B.C. -- Drama
653 _aFinnish drama -- 20th century
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76512
999 _c117237
_d117237