Acknowledgements
Most chapters in this volume originally appeared in other publications, reprinted here courtesy of their editors and/or publishers with thanks. Presentation has been rendered uniform, and in some cases revisions to the text (mostly light) have been made.
1. ‘Plato in his time and place’ (from The Oxford Handbook of Plato, 2nd ed., ed. G. Fine. Oxford, 2019: 41–64)
2. ‘When and why did Plato write narrated dialogues?’ (from Plato, Poet and Philosopher, eds. E. Moutsopoulos and M. Protopappas-Marneli. Athens, 2013: 87–96)
3. ‘Against system: the historical Plato in the mid-Victorian era’ (from For a Skeptical Peripatetic: Festschrift in Honour of John Glucker, eds. Y. Z. Liebersohn, I. Ludlam, and A. Edelheit. Sankt Augustin, 2017: 344–64)
4. ‘Callicles’ return: Gorgias 509–522 reconsidered’ (from Philosophie Antique 17 (2017): 7–30)
5. ‘Likeness and likenesses in the Parmenides’ (from Form and Argument in Late Plato, eds. C. Gill and M. M. McCabe. Oxford, 1996: 48–78)
6. ‘Another two Cratyluses problem’ (from Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows, eds. V. Harte and R. Woolf. Cambridge, 2017: 181–98)
7. ‘The noble lie’ (from The Cambridge Companion to Plato’s Republic, ed. G. R. F. Ferrari. Cambridge, 2007: 138–64)
8. ‘Metaspeleology’ (from Maieusis: Essays on Ancient Philosophy in Honour of Myles Burnyeat, ed. D. Scott. Oxford, 2007: 216–31)
9. ‘Religion and philosophy in the Laws’ (De Vogel lecture, from Plato’s Laws: From Theory into Practice, eds. S. Scolnicov and L. Brisson. Sankt Augustin, 2003: 1–13)
10. ‘The Laws’ two projects’ (from Plato’s Laws: A Critical Guide, ed. C. Bobonich. Cambridge, 2010: 12–28)
11. ‘Plato, Xenophon, and the laws of Lycurgus’ (from Polis 38 (2021): 450–72)
12. ‘Injury, injustice, and the involuntary in the Laws’ (from Virtue and Happiness: Essays in Honour of Julia Annas, ed. R. Kamtekar (Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, suppl. vol. 2012). Oxford, 2012: 103–14)
13. ‘Plato’s marionette’ (Michael Frede lecture, from Rhizomata 4 (2016): 128–53)
14. ‘Paradoxes of childhood and play in Heraclitus and Plato’ (J. H. Gray lecture, not previously published)
