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Euthydemus

Socrates

Socrates tells Crito about his encounter with two sophist brothers, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, who promise to teach virtue quickly and unleash a cascade of eristic fallacies. Between their routines Socrates offers a model of protreptic conversation urging the young Clinias towards philosophy. It is Plato's comedy of false wisdom.

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English

Translated by Benjamin Jowett · 23 chapters · 2 h reading

  1. 1INTRODUCTION.22′
  2. 2EUTHYDEMUS · 19′
  3. 3EUTHYDEMUS · 22′
  4. 4EUTHYDEMUS · 34′
  5. 5EUTHYDEMUS · 42′
  6. 6EUTHYDEMUS · 52′
  7. 7EUTHYDEMUS · 64′
  8. 8EUTHYDEMUS · 72′
  9. 9EUTHYDEMUS · 83′
  10. 10EUTHYDEMUS · 93′
  11. 11EUTHYDEMUS · 103′
  12. 12EUTHYDEMUS · 114′
  13. 13EUTHYDEMUS · 123′
  14. 14EUTHYDEMUS · 132′
  15. 15EUTHYDEMUS · 142′
  16. 16EUTHYDEMUS · 153′
  17. 17EUTHYDEMUS · 163′
  18. 18EUTHYDEMUS · 172′
  19. 19EUTHYDEMUS · 183′
  20. 20EUTHYDEMUS · 192′
  21. 21EUTHYDEMUS · 203′
  22. 22EUTHYDEMUS · 218′
  23. 23EUTHYDEMUS · 221′

Spanish

Translated by Patricio de Azcárate · 7 chapters · 1 h reading

  1. 1Sócrates – Criton – Eutidemo – Dionisodoro – Clinias – Ctésipo · 15′
  2. 2Sócrates – Criton – Eutidemo – Dionisodoro – Clinias – Ctésipo · 219′
  3. 3Sócrates – Criton – Eutidemo – Dionisodoro – Clinias – Ctésipo · 39′
  4. 4Sócrates – Criton – Eutidemo – Dionisodoro – Clinias – Ctésipo · 41′
  5. 5Sócrates – Criton – Eutidemo – Dionisodoro – Clinias – Ctésipo · 51′
  6. 6Sócrates – Criton – Eutidemo – Dionisodoro – Clinias – Ctésipo · 620′
  7. 7Sócrates – Criton – Eutidemo – Dionisodoro – Clinias – Ctésipo · 75′
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