Short answers, pulled from the story.
The events of the dialogue Theaetetus occurred around 369 BC or possibly earlier in 391 BC during a time when Theaetetus was wounded fighting at Corinth. Scholars debate which specific battle happened, with Debra Nails arguing for the later date to fit the timeline better.
Socrates models his career after his midwife mother to deliver thoughts from young minds through questions and answers. He calls this process maieutics or midwifery and claims he can tell when a young man is trying to give birth to an idea.
Protagoras claimed Man is the measure of all things and linked this maxim to the idea that knowledge equals perception. Heraclitean flux theory suggests everything exists in constant motion so nothing remains fixed because reality flows like water.
Edmund Gettier published a paper titled Is Justified True Belief Knowledge in 1963 to investigate Platonic epistemology related to both Theaetetus and Meno. His example challenges whether justified true belief equals actual knowledge and shows people holding correct beliefs without possessing real understanding.