I. Defining Sophistry -- Protagoras and the Definition of 'Sophist' in the Sophist -- Whyis it so Difficult to Catch a Sophist? Pl. Sph. 218d3 and 261aS -- Plato's Enquiry concerning the Sophist as a Way towards 'Defining' Philosophy -- The Sixth Definition (Sophist 226a-231c): Transposition of Religious Language -- Remarks on the First Five Definitions of the Sophist (Soph. 221c-235a) -- Socrates and 'Noble' Sophistry (Sophist 226b-231c) -- The Method of Division in the Sophist: Plato's Second Deuteros Plous -- II. Parricide: Threat or Reality? -- Plato's Ionian Muses: Sophist 242 d-e -- Does Plato refute Parmenides? -- Back to the Point: Plato and Parmenides - Genuine Parricide? -- Plato's Eleaticism in the Sophist: The Doctrine of Non-Being -- The relativization of "separation" (khorismos) in the Sophist -- III. Mimesis, Image and Logos Francesco Fronterotta -- Theaetetus sits - Theaetetus flies. Ontology, predication and truth in Plato's Sophist (263a-d) -- Difference and Negation: Plato's Sophist in Proclus -- Difference in Kind: Observations on the Distinction of the Megista Gene -- Mimesis in the Sophist -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- Subject Index.