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A performance of the Euthydemus in an English adaptation. The
Euthydemus did more than most of Plato’s works to give a bad name
to the 'sophists', itinerant teachers whom he will have encountered
in his youth when some of them clashed with his hero Socrates. Here
his dialogue about two sophists is transferred to a
twentieth-century setting, Princeton University, where the
adaptation was performed and tape-recorded in 1958. Local faculty
and students, speaking in their own names, take the parts of
Plato's characters, giving a dramatic and sometimes comical lesson
as to how philosophical inquiry ought to be conducted. In order of
appearance, the roles are: Professor C.C. Pratt as Crito, a crony
of Socrates; Professor Carl Hempel as Socrates; John Lucas as
Euthydemus, a visiting sophist; Donald Clemons as Ctesippus, a
young man; Richard Sykes as Dionysodorus, another visiting sophist;
Carlotta Sherwood (alias ‘Valerie Stephens’) as Cleinias,
Ctesippus’ beloved. Page numbers against parts below, such as ‘275b
5 – 278e 1’, are for those who wish to match their listening with a
written text or translation of Plato. Brief descriptions of what is
going on in each part are visible at itunes.ox.ac.uk; to see them
at podcasts.ox.ac.uk, click on the RSS button. The ‘Introduction’
explains more.
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