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This is an old-fashioned and refreshing study that focuses on literary style, rhetoric, irony, and imagery, which Rutherford rightly thinks complement philosophical analysis of Plato. Rutherford draws connections between the dialogues and other genres and styles of writing (for example, the Greek tragedians and Thucydides) rather than between Plato and other philosophers...[A] brilliant and deeply satisfying book. -- John Bussanich Review of Metaphysics

Richard Rutherford is Tutor in Greek and Latin Literature at Christ Church, Oxford, and University Lecturer in Classical Languages and Literature.

Preface Abbreviations and short titles Problems and Approaches Corpus and chronology The dialogue as a critical problem The literary origins of Platonic dialogue The continuing problem Biography Socrates and Plato Plato's thought: unity or development? Plato the eternal questioner The Apology Appendix A: Chronological table Appendix B: The Unwritten Doctrines Socratic Literature and the Socratic Question Appendix: Isocrates and Thucydides Socrates at Work: his manners and methods The Laches The Charmides The Clitopho and other criticisms of Socrates Socrates and the Sophists Preliminaries The Euthydemus The Protagoras The Gorgias Introductory Gorgias Polus Callicles The myth The Symposium The first five speeches Socrates Alcibiades The finale The Republic Form and structure The ideal society The critique of art Appendix: the plan of the Republic The Phaedrus Socrates and Phaedrus Love and desire in the Phaedrus The unity of the Phaedrus Writing (in) the Phaedrus Further Perspectives Introductory: the Theaetetus The Timaeus The Laws Appendix: the plan of the Laws Bibliography Index