Thinking of Death in Plato's Euthydemus

Thinking of Death places Plato''s Euthydemus among the dialogues that surround the trial and death of Socrates. A premonition of philosophy''s fate arrives in the form of Socrates'' encounter with the two-headed sophist pair, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, who appear as if they are the ghost of the Socrates of Aristophanes'' Thinkery. The pair vacillate between choral ode and rhapsody, as Plato vaci...