How long does it take to read Theaetetus?
Theaetetus by Plato takes about 3 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Platonic dialogue
About 3 hours 18 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1861. 180 pages, about 49,500 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 30 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 4 minutes |
The page count is the median across 159 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Some dialogues of Plato are of so various a character that their relation to the other dialogues cannot be determined with any degree of certainty. The Theaetetus, like the Parmenides, has points of similarity both with his earlier and his later writings. The perfection of style, the humour, the dramatic interest, the complexity of structure, the fertility of illustration, the shifting of the points of view, are characteristic of his best period of authorship.
Subjects: Theory of Knowledge, Ancient Philosophy, Collected works, Philosophy, Fiction, Knowledge, theory of
