Note 48 — Chapter I · PROMETHEUS, THE MYTHICAL HERO
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Ibid., 73–74. See also Homer, Od. xiv. 83, and Il. ix. 49. See also the reverent manner in which Euthyphron is made to refer to Zeus when addressing Socrates. And this was probably typical of the cultivated Greek of the period. “For all men believe,” says Euthyphron, “that Zeus is the best and most just of the gods,” Plato, Euthyphron.