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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
If it doesn't retain relevance, it tends to only be of interest to academic scholars after a century or so  |
hmm, caught red-handed! I actually was thinking of ancient greek philosophical works when I responded...
Plato, Aristotle, et al. held no relevance for centuries and were nearly lost - but no one seriously doubts their greatness.
Without annotations we would not have a deep enough understanding to know whether the work held any relevance. "
βασιλέως στοάν" - Porch of the King Archon's court? Oh! That's the highest court of ancient Greece - where you get tried for your life for crimes like treason or impiety. It doesn't get more serious than that! The beginning of Euthyphro is that much clearer now.
And being educated in U.S. public schools of the 70s/80s, I had no way of understanding the many English-isms in Alice.
"How queer it seems," Alice said to herself, "to be going messages for a rabbit!"
"Going messages?" Ok, I'm lost! Oh! That means "running errands" - thank you Martin Gardner!
So I guess I'm just a musty old scholar...
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