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July 02, 2006

Gosh It's Hot!

she.jpgI have been working on our Plato translation a lot lately, and I'm finally getting back up to speed, which is nice. Part of the problem is that my only copy of the Republic is an ancient Teubner from the 1890's, with a peculiarly baroque font. (Also notes drawn in spidery pen and ink). This new Oxford Classical Text, by contrast has an E-Z to read font, making the Euthphro a breeze. I think I even objected to it at one time, but it's legible as hell! I think the Euthyphro should have been dramatized by Mel Blanc:

Euthyphro: (in Abominable Snowman voice) Duuuuh, and that's not all! I could tell you lots and lots of things about the gods that would real-ly sur-prise you.

Socrates: (in Bugs Bunny voice) Yeeah, I can just imagine. Fasckinating stuff. Someday when you've got a whole lot of time on your hands we'll sit down and you can tell me aaaaalllll about it. But in the meantime, would you hold this while I go powder my nose? (Hands Euthyphro fizzing bomb.)

Euthyphro: Duuuh, okay Socrates.

BOOM!

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jholbo

I looked and I looked, and I searched and I searched, but I never found that definition of piety. Gosh it's hot.

Posted by: jholbo | July 02, 2006 at 10:32 PM

Jonathan

I once lived 29 degrees north of the equator and found that to be too much.

Posted by: Jonathan | July 02, 2006 at 11:57 PM

Jonathan

Too close, you know.

Posted by: Jonathan | July 02, 2006 at 11:58 PM

djw

I hope you're working on the Mel Blanc edition. I'd totally buy that.

Posted by: djw | July 03, 2006 at 06:40 AM

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