Nick, Wednesday evening will be fine. I look forward to seeing you and Michael. Please specify an approximate time. I've done my homework. Read the entire Crito. I have the following issues on my mind, which you may or may not want to discuss: a) the poetry of death: in anticipation, in objective and subjective contemporary experience, in retrospect (the crucifixion, the descent from the cross (Kreuzabnahme), pieta) i) from a literary perspective ii) from an esthetic perspective iii) from an ethical perspective b) Plato's opposition of individual wrong-doing c) Plato's endorsement of societal, i.e. governmental wrong-doing d) virtue, the good, as judicial determination. cf Fugitive slave act. The judicial authorization of slavery, of killing ... e) Christian ethics vs. Greek ethics; the crucifixion as the conclusive repudiation of herd ethics Plato's Crito as the conclusive endorsement of herd ethics. (Professor Jaeger would be appalled. He would disown me.) ==> Please bring back my copy of Jaeger's Theology of the early Greek Philosophers. I'm embarrassed to be nagging, but it gives me invaluable evidence of the (mis)understanding of the English readership in general and of the translator in particular. Thank you and Michael for coming.