Benardete, Seth, "Physics and Tragedy: On Plato's Cratylus," The Argument of the Action: Essays on Greek Poetry and Philosophy, eds. Seth Benardete, Ronna Burger, and Michael Davis, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

The Cratylus seems to be a caricature of a Platonic dialogue. It gives us Socrates as seen in the distorting mirror of an alien inspiration. It begins as a farce and ends as a tragedy: Socrates finally invokes the “ideas” like so many dei ex machina in order to be saved from the perplexities of the Heraclitean flux.

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