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Euthyphro

by Plato

Reading #26 ("Memorabilia 2", 2025)


Abstract

Euthyphro encounters Socrates at the court, when the latter is answering a summons. Euthyphro is there to bring charges against his father for the wrongful killing of a slave, and thus their dialogue turns towards the question of the pious.

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authors Plato
literary form dialogue
genres Socratic dialogue
subjects philosophy, theology, ethics, justice, rhetoric
period Classical Greece, 5th c. BCE, 4th c. BCE
language Ancient Greek, Attic Greek
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