 Throughout the dialogues characters frequently cite technê as a way of illustrating important points in their philosophical conversations. Some crafts mentioned are medicine, horsemanship, huntsmanship, oxherding, farming, calculation, geometry, generalship, piloting a ship, chariot-driving, political craft, prophecy, music, lyre-playing, flute-playing, painting, sculpture, housebuilding, shipbuilding, carpentry, weaving, pottery, smithing, and cookery. Each of these activities is associated with the word technê, e.g., medicine with the iatrikê technê. Each is also associated with a practitioner, e.g., medicine with a physician (iatros). Other crafts are mentioned but without practitioners, e.g., arithmetic, flute-making, and sorcery. Socrates uses medicine much more than any other technê; other crafts repeatedly mentioned, albeit less frequently than medicine, are house-building, weaving, political craft, music, shoemaking, piloting a ship, generalship, prophecy, carpentry, farming, horsemanship, flute-playing. To our contemporary ears this list is quite various; it is hard to think that they all have any interesting characteristics in common. Such crafts, or technai, as farming and building have concrete, inanimate products. Horse training and huntsmanship care for animate but non-human beings. Medicine cares for the health of humans. Calculation has neither a concrete product nor does it provide care.