In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.

[EX Q]: In this work, a definition of justice as "what is good for the stronger" is given by Thrasymachus. In this work, a story about the killer of King Candaules of Lydia is used to describe how people are just out of necessity. That story in this work tells of the [*] "Ring of Gyges." This work describes chained prisoners who watch shadows pass before them. This work combines ideas about the "divided line" and the sun into its "Allegory of the Cave." For 10 points, name this work that proposes a government ruled by philosopher kings, a dialogue on government by Plato.
[EX A]: Literature

[EX Q]: To the speaker of this poem and "to darkness" is left the world by a ploughman who "homeward plods his weary way." The speaker of this poem muses about "hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, or waked to ecstasy the living lyre." The denizens of the title location of this poem were "forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne," meaning one of them may be "some (*) Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood." This poem concerns those who lived "far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife," and it begins as "the curfew tolls the knell of parting day." For 10 points, name this poem by Thomas Gray.
[EX A]: Literature

[EX Q]: Julius Pollux recorded that this hero's dog ate some snails, thus discovering a purple dye. This hero killed Syleus, who forced passersby to hoe his vineyard. This man killed Theiodamas in a dispute over a bull, and adopted a son as a companion who was later abducted by nymphs while fetching water. After Eurytus reneged on a promise to give a daughter to the winner of an archery contest, this man killed him and abducted Iole. This companion of Hylas killed Iphitus, for which he was punished by having to wear women's clothing and serve Omphale. This hero was killed by a shirt soaked in the blood of the centaur Nessus, which was given to him by his jealous wife Deianira. For 10 points, name this Greek hero who retrieved the cattle of Geryon while performing his twelve labors.
[EX A]:
Social Science