Brainstorming about history, politics, literature, religion, and other topics from a 'gypsy' scholar on a wagon hitched to a star.
TraductionI betray my education,
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posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 10:34 AM
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I am a retired professor. I last taught at Ewha Womans University, mostly composition, research writing, and cultural issues, but also the occasional graduate seminar on Gnosticism and Johannine theology and the occasional undergraduate course on European history. My doctorate is in history (U.C. Berkeley), with emphasis on religion and science. My thesis is on John's gospel and Gnosticism. I'm also an award-winning writer, and I recommend my novella, The Bottomless Bottle of Beer, to anyone interested. I'm originally from the Arkansas Ozarks, but my academic career -- funded through doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships (e.g., Fulbright, Naumann, Lady Davis) -- has taken me through Texas, California, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, and Israel and has landed me in Seoul, South Korea. I've also traveled to Mexico, visited much of Europe, including Moscow, and touched down briefly in a few East Asian countries. Hence: "Gypsy Scholar."
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Interesting, as just recently I read Xenophon's The Dinner Party, and unlike Plato's Symposium--which Xenophon is evidently criticizing in his telling of the same story--in The Dinner Party Xenophon makes it clear that, contrary to Plato's representation of Aristophanes and Socrates as "good friends" in his telling, that, to the contrary, Aristophanes' The Clouds was a slander, or "traduction", against Socrates.
Now, I do not know how Aristophanes and Socrates got along, but Xenophon clearly disapproves of the play, and evidently he feels it did Socrates damage.
Ah, and I am reminded of that character "The Disagreeabler." There now! There's a fellow who's given over to traducton!
The Disagreebler is very familiar to me.
Jeffery Hodges
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