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The Greeks and the Irrational E. R. Dodds
Publisher: University of California Press

They worry about contagion, the idea that a Greek problem will spread like an infection to larger countries such as Spain and Italy. Is it any coincidence that the first two letters of the word "pizza" are P and I? Also on this day in modern history, classicist E.R. (yes or no); Is the value of pi a rational or irrational number? Pi is which letter (first, second, third, etc.) of the Greek alphabet? This contagion concept is in itself totally irrational. Other standards, not exclusively about pre-Socratic philosophy but certainly related to it, are E.R. Their 10 yr yield is spiking another 29 bps to 5.80% and is up 50 bps on the week to the. In a similar sense, many of Plato's truth-claims were undergirded by dogma. Greek bonds didn't respond well to yesterday's S&P downgrade to BBB+. Dodds, author of The Greeks and the Irrational (see Shame Culture) died. The entire structure is a cacophony of raucous curves that deceives us into seeing perfect rectangular forms that appear rigid and controlled, but which, on examination, are highly energized and irrational. Severan Dynasty Tondo photo courtesy of Wikipedia. According to classical scholar E.R. Dodds, in The Greeks and the Irrational, contends that ancient Greek society was far less rational than modern imagination supposes. Like what I saw in Argentina in 2000-01, when most Argentines wanted to stick with the currency board and fixed peg to the U.S.