Saturday, July 10, 2004
A Raging and Savage Beast
In the first book of Plato's Republic (329 b-c, tr. Paul Shorey), Cephalus is talking about old age. He says, "I remember hearing Sophocles the poet greeted by a fellow who asked, How about your service of Aphrodite, Sophocles -- is your natural force still unabated? And he replied, Hush, man, most gladly have I escaped this thing you talk of, as if I had run away from a raging and savage beast of a master."
One wonders what Sophocles would have thought of the modern pharmaceutical industry, which makes billions of dollars from a product (sildenafil citrate) designed to unleash that raging and savage beast.
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One wonders what Sophocles would have thought of the modern pharmaceutical industry, which makes billions of dollars from a product (sildenafil citrate) designed to unleash that raging and savage beast.
