For 10 points—name this Platonic dialogue, in which Socrates claims that the best type of government is one ruled absolutely by a philosopher-king.
One character in this work tells the story of Gyges's discovery of a ring of invisibility and his seduction of the queen and murder of the king.  Another character in this work is forced to go to the house of Cephalus in Piraeus, and later discusses levels of "bedness", claiming that as each bedness shares its form with the original bed, if they are associated with each other ad infinitum, it creates an infinite regress of form.  That character also describes how a man who sees the fire and the sun would at first want to turn his head or go back, but that his duty is to go back and get the other prisoners and help them to escape in a section usually called, "the Allegory of the Cave".  For 10 points—name this Platonic dialogue, in which Socrates claims that the best type of government is one ruled absolutely by a philosopher-king.
One character in this work tells the story of Gyges's discovery of a ring of invisibility and his seduction of the queen and murder of the king.  
The {Republic}