Piety VS Impiety (Euthyphro & Socrates)

What is piety and impiety? This broad question is exactly what Euthyphro and Socrates debate about the true meaning of these two words. When society hears the word piety, they think of worship for God or religious fulfillment of sacred obligations. However, when Socrates attends the king's court on charges of impiety by Meletus, he encounters Euthyphro there who is going to prosecute his own father for accidentally killing one of his workers. Even though Socrates feels that Euthyphro has courage for prosecuting his own father on a charge that can be seen as disputable, Euthyphro mentions that he still knows everything about the true meaning of being holy. At this point, Socrates exhorts Euthyphro to teach him what holiness is and help his trial against Meletus. This well known debate has different views amongst each other as well as how others who read about the two view their argument and whether or not it is accurate or simply bogus. When Socrates and Euthyphro begin to have a discussion about if Euthyphro's fathers' murder is pious or impious, he begins to debate with him about Euthyphro's father's trial as well as taking his own trial into consideration. When they start to discuss the difference between piety and impiety, Euthyphro first starts by explaining what piety is by giving a simple example instead of giving the actual definition. He mentions what he is doing to his father for manslaughter is pious or just but Socrates finds this statement rubbish because it is not a definition and merely an example of piety. The statement that Euthyphro says does not supply any essential quality which makes pious things actually pious. Euthyphro says, "The pious is to do what I am doing now, to prosecute the wrongdoer, and be it about murder or temple robbery or anything else, whether the wrongdoer is your father ot your mother or anyone else." One can blatantly see that there is no substance to this statement to consider it an actual definition, but really just a