Editing Theaetetus (dialogue) (section)

== Significant references in the dialogue ==
In this dialogue, Socrates refers to [[Epicharmus of Kos]] as "the prince of Comedy" and [[Homer]] as "the prince of Tragedy", and both as "great masters of either kind of poetry".<ref name="Plato1" group="note"/> This is significant because it is one of the very few extant references in greater antiquity (Fourth century BCE) to Epicharmus and his work. Another reference is in Plato's [[Gorgias (dialogue)|''Gorgias'']] dialogue.

The dialogue references the [[Trial of Socrates]], which takes place in 399 BCE and which the main dialogue immediately precedes. At the end of the dialogue, as Socrates is leaving to face a hearing at the [[Stoa Basileios|Porch of the King Archon]], he agrees to meet Theaetetus and Theodorus in the same place the following day, a conversation that is recounted in the ''Sophist'' and ''Statesman'' dialogues. The dialogue ''Euthyphro'' also is set on the same day, and would have occurred immediately after the Theaetetus, as it occurs outside the Porch of the King Archon as Socrates awaits his hearing.

The dialogue includes the earliest reference to [[The Astrologer who Fell into a Well]], one of [[Aesop's fables]], in which the pre-Socratic philosopher Thales, who is known for his work in astronomy and his successful prediction of a solar eclipse, is so distracted by the stars that he forgets the ground below him, and proceeds to trip over a well.