Cratylus
by Plato
Abstract
Socrates, Hermogenes, and Cratylus discuss whether names—or even all words—have a natural basis or not, in a dialogue filled with etymological digression.
Bibliographic Data
| Kind | Term |
|---|---|
| authors | Plato |
| literary form | dialogue |
| genres | Socratic dialogue |
| subjects | etymology, linguistics, philosophy, laws, logic, pre-history |
| period | Classical Greece, 5th c. BCE, 4th c. BCE |
| language | Ancient Greek, Attic Greek |
| same as | wikidata | wikipedia |
| keywords & tags | #fine-things-are-very-difficult |
| Index | 79 entries |
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- Acesimbrotus
- Achilles
- Aegina
- Agamemnon
- Agis
- Ajax
- Anaxagoras
- Aphrodite
- Apollo
- Archepolis
- Ares
- Artemis
- Astyanax
- Athena
- Athens
- Atreus
- Batieia
- Callias
- Chrysippus of Elis
- Cratylus
- Cronos
- Demeter
- Dionysus
- Dorians
- Eretria
- Eupolemus
- Euthydemus
- Euthyphro
- Eutychides
- Hades
- Hector
- Hellas
- Hephaestus
- Hera
- Heraclitus
- Hermes
- Hermogenes
- Hesiod
- Hestia
- Hippodamia
- Hipponicus
- Homer
- Iatrocles
- Iris
- Leto
- Mnesitheus
- Muses
- Myrina
- Myrtilus
- Oceanus
- Orestes
- Orpheus
- Pan
- Pelops
- Persephone
- Phrygia
- Polemarchus
- Poseidon
- Prodicus
- Protagoras
- Rhea
- Scamander
- Scamandrius
- Sirens
- Smicrion
- Socrates
- Sosias
- Sous
- Sparta
- Tantalus
- Telamon
- Tethys
- Theophilus
- Thessaly
- Thyestes
- Troy
- Uranus
- Xanthus
- Zeus
Notes
383–384a A simple framing—told by Hermogenes—from where we begin: He and Cratylus have been having a discussion on the meaning of names, and the latter contends that a name belongs to each thing by nature.
385b–c Remark on charging for knowledge
if I’d attended Prodicus’ fifty-drachma lecture course […] I’ve heard only the one-drachma course, I don’t know the truth about it.
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