BOOKCOVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1 THE JOY OF READING PLATO -- 2 THE READER PARTICIPATES -- 3 AN EXAMPLE OF INDIVIDUAL RECEPTION -- 4 POSSIBLE MISTAKEN ATTITUDES ON THE PART OF THE READER -- 5 ONE DOES NOT SEE WHAT ONE DOES NOT KNOW -- 6 CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PLATONIC DIALOGUES -- 7 QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CHARACTERISTICS -- 8 FOR WHOM IS PLATO WRITING? -- 9 DOES A PLATONIC DIALOGUE SPEAK WITH SEVERAL VOICES? -- 10 AN ANCIENT THEORY OF INTERPRETATION -- 11 THE INTERPRETATION OF SIMONIDES IN THE PROTAGORAS -- 12 THE CRITIQUE OF WRITING IN THE PHAEDRUS -- 13 THE DEFINITION OF THE PHILOSOPHER BASED ON HIS RELATIONSHIP TO HIS WRITINGS -- 14 THE MEANING OF TIMIΩTEPA -- 15 'SUPPORT FOR THE LOGOS' IN THE DIALOGUES -- 16 THE ASCENT TO THE PRINCIPLES AND THE LIMITS OF PHILOSOPHICAL COMMUNICATION -- 17 SOME 'GAPS' -- 18 THE DOCTRINE OF ANAMNESIS AND DIALECTIC IN THE EUTHYDEMUS -- 19 THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ALLUSIONS FOR READING PLATO -- 20 PLATO'S DRAMATIC TECHNIQUE -- 21 IRONY -- 22 MYTH -- 23 MONOLOGUE AND DIALOGUE WITH IMAGINARY PARTNERS -- 24 THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DIALOGUES -- 25 HOW AND WHY THE DIALOGUE-FORM HAS BEEN MISUNDERSTOOD -- 26 THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ESOTERICISM AND SECRECY -- 27 PLATO'S CONCEPT OF PHILOSOPHY AND THE OBJECTIVES OF THE DIALOGUES -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF PASSAGES CITED.