Dialogue

Theaetetus

Plato · tr. H. N. Fowler

Year 369 BCE

Tradition Ancient Greek

Era Classical

Language Greek, with Fowler's English (1921)

“Just in from the country, Terpsion, or did you come some time ago?”

Socrates, son of a midwife, helps young Theaetetus test what knowledge is: perception, true opinion, or true opinion accompanied by reason.