{"id":12061,"date":"2009-12-02T18:29:33","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T18:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/02\/sophocles-on-the-root-of-all-evil\/"},"modified":"2009-12-02T18:29:33","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T18:29:33","slug":"sophocles-on-the-root-of-all-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/02\/sophocles-on-the-root-of-all-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophocles on the Root of All Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Via <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/root-of-all-evil.html\"><font color=\"#810081\" face=\"Georgia\">Mike Gilleland<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">, we read in Sophocles, <strong>Antigone<\/strong> 295-301 (tr. Hugh Lloyd-Jones):<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">There is no institution so ruinous for men as money; money sacks cities, money drives men from their homes! Money by its teaching perverts men&#39;s good minds so that they take to evil actions! Money has shown men how to practise villainy, and taught them impiousness in every action!<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Mike has the Greek for you purists and elitists.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">The Sophoclean sentiment, however, is quite false.&#0160; For a view with a much better chance of being true, see <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2009\/12\/radix-omnium-malorum.html\">Radix Omnium Malorum<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Mike Gilleland, we read in Sophocles, Antigone 295-301 (tr. Hugh Lloyd-Jones): There is no institution so ruinous for men as money; money sacks cities, money drives men from their homes! Money by its teaching perverts men&#39;s good minds so that they take to evil actions! Money has shown men how to practise villainy, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/02\/sophocles-on-the-root-of-all-evil\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sophocles on the Root of All Evil&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-and-evil","category-money-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}