While discussing Euthyphro in class it became blatantly obvious that one of the hardest things to pin down in a translation was the tone of the dialogue. For most literary works tone is built very intricately by choosing extremely precise words, but we are not really reading Plato’s words. And because we were all reading different translations we were all finding subtle discrepancies in the tone that impacted the way we took the text. My version was extremely palatable compared to Bloom’s and this meant I interpreted the conversation to be far more lighthearted than some of my classmates. This difference also gives the text a new sort of life, because a hundred different versions can have a hundred different subtle differences, meaning that Plato’s dialogues can be read and reread an untold amount of times while still being fresh and interesting.