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The Stephanus edition of Plato's Euthyphro, the dialogue for which the ancient prophet is best remembered. Euthyphro of Prospalta (/ ˈ juː θ ɪ f r oʊ /; Ancient Greek: Εὐθύφρων Προσπάλτιος; fl. 400 BCE) was an ancient Athenian religious prophet best known for his role in his eponymous dialogue written by the philosopher ...
Euthyphro, the Athenian prophet. His father owned land on the island of Naxos. His father owned land on the island of Naxos. His father's harsh treatment of a paid servant (a thetes under the Solonian Constitution) leads to Euthyphro raising charges against him.
Euthyphro proposes (6e) that the pious (τὸ ὅσιον) is the same thing as that which is loved by the gods (τὸ θεοφιλές), but Socrates finds a problem with this proposal: the gods may disagree among themselves (7e). Euthyphro then revises his definition, so that piety is only that which is loved by all of the gods unanimously (9e).
The following is a list of the speakers found in the dialogues traditionally ascribed to Plato, including extensively quoted, indirect and conjured speakers.Dialogues, as well as Platonic Epistles and Epigrams, in which these individuals appear dramatically but do not speak are listed separately.
Name Date Content Institution Papyrus 2993 : 300 BC-200 BC: Sophist 223-224: Digitised Manuscripts, British Library P.Oxy.XXXIII 2662 : 100 BC-100 AD: Meno 92E-93B: Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford
Euthyphro – prophet; Euxenides – playwright; Evander of Pallantium - A Arcadian King of Arcadia and founder of the city Pallantium, of the Palatine Hill, which would be the future site of Rome, sixty years before the Trojan War. Evagoras of Salamis – rebel; Exekias – potter and vasepainter
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The Charmides (/ ˈ k ɑːr m ɪ d iː z /; Ancient Greek: Χαρμίδης) is a dialogue of Plato, in which Socrates engages a handsome and popular boy named Charmides in a conversation about the meaning of sophrosyne, a Greek word usually translated into English as "temperance," "self-control," or "restraint."