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

But it is no more irrational than predicting that Greece will stay in the euro zone. Both incredibly deep and terribly rational and irrational at the same time. Have been found in the oldest Greek literature, and books like Eric Dodds' famous The Greeks and the Irrational have made it clear that it is silly to think of the ancient Greeks as Enlightenment philosophers avant la lettre. As the rest of the world wrings its hands about the risk that this weekend's election could lead to the country exiting the euro, that risk feels less real in Athens itself. To learn from this tragedy then, is to understand the circumstance surrounding Greece's downfall and the unforgiving, sometimes irrational and arbitrary nature of the bond market. Greece has no need to 'deserve' its membership of the eurozone. First Chapter Agamenon's Apology. In this the Greeks remind me of the Germans a bit. This is an irrational prediction because there's no real way of knowing that this will happen. The Greeks and the Irrational ER Dodds 1. The Greek people know this, and they voted accordingly.