Gerald A. Press was Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center, USA.

"[The book] is comprehensive, full of useful advice for anyone teaching Plato at any level. Press gives us the information we need to have at our fingertips, but his suggestions only increase the excitement of reading the dialogues themselves." - Debra Nails, Professor of Philosophy, Michigan State University, USA

• Introduction Part I. Backgrounds 1. Plato's Life and Works 2. The Contexts for Interpreting Plato's Dialogues Part II. Sources of Perplexity: Change 3. A Brief History of Platonism and Plato Interpretation 4. Dialogue Form5. Arguments and Ideas, Vision and Doctrines6. Fables, Myths, and Stories7. Irony and other forms of humor8. Play and seriousness 9. ParadoxPart III. Plato's Philosophy: Permanence 10. Platonic Anonymity and the Nature of Plato's Philosophy11. Persistent Themes and Plato's Vision 12. The Platonic Path to WisdomPart IV: Help in Reading and Understanding Plato's Dialogues and His Philosophy13. How to Read a Platonic Dialogue14. Summaries of the DialoguesGlossary of Greek TermsBibliography

Gerald A. Press was Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center, USA.

"[The book] is comprehensive, full of useful advice for anyone teaching Plato at any level. Press gives us the information we need to have at our fingertips, but his suggestions only increase the excitement of reading the dialogues themselves." - Debra Nails, Professor of Philosophy, Michigan State University, USA

• Introduction Part I. Backgrounds 1. Plato's Life and Works 2. The Contexts for Interpreting Plato's Dialogues Part II. Sources of Perplexity: Change 3. A Brief History of Platonism and Plato Interpretation 4. Dialogue Form5. Arguments and Ideas, Vision and Doctrines6. Fables, Myths, and Stories7. Irony and other forms of humor8. Play and seriousness 9. ParadoxPart III. Plato's Philosophy: Permanence 10. Platonic Anonymity and the Nature of Plato's Philosophy11. Persistent Themes and Plato's Vision 12. The Platonic Path to WisdomPart IV: Help in Reading and Understanding Plato's Dialogues and His Philosophy13. How to Read a Platonic Dialogue14. Summaries of the DialoguesGlossary of Greek TermsBibliography

Gerald A. Press was Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center, USA.

"[The book] is comprehensive, full of useful advice for anyone teaching Plato at any level. Press gives us the information we need to have at our fingertips, but his suggestions only increase the excitement of reading the dialogues themselves." - Debra Nails, Professor of Philosophy, Michigan State University, USA

• Introduction Part I. Backgrounds 1. Plato's Life and Works 2. The Contexts for Interpreting Plato's Dialogues Part II. Sources of Perplexity: Change 3. A Brief History of Platonism and Plato Interpretation 4. Dialogue Form5. Arguments and Ideas, Vision and Doctrines6. Fables, Myths, and Stories7. Irony and other forms of humor8. Play and seriousness 9. ParadoxPart III. Plato's Philosophy: Permanence 10. Platonic Anonymity and the Nature of Plato's Philosophy11. Persistent Themes and Plato's Vision 12. The Platonic Path to WisdomPart IV: Help in Reading and Understanding Plato's Dialogues and His Philosophy13. How to Read a Platonic Dialogue14. Summaries of the DialoguesGlossary of Greek TermsBibliography