Plato’s Euthyphro is a definitional aporetic dialogue in which Socrates and Euthyphro, a professional seer, produce unsuccessful definitions of piety (hosiotes). The article tracks down the evidence for its theatrical performance on the basis of five authorial choices: (a) the dramatic time — given that the opening scene of the Euthyphro is the immediate temporal continuation of the closing one in the Theaetetus, a successive performance of both dialogues seems an intriguing possibility; (b) the alternative subtext, since the dialogue may be alternatively read as a mythological mime; (c) Euthyphro’s construction as the Platonic version of Aeschylean Kassandra; (d) the visual semantics of Meletos’ physical appearance; (e) The Royal Stoa and its surroundings as the setting of the dialogue.
