Framing the Dialogues: How to Read Openings and Closures in Plato

Eleni Kaklamanou is currently a researcher at the Institute of Mediterranean Studies, Foundation for Research and Technology, Crete. She teaches ancient philosophy at the Hellenic Open University and the Open University of Cyprus. Her main research interest include Plato and Platonism and political philosophy.Maria Pavlou is Lecturer of Ancient Greek Language and Literature at the Theological School of the Church of Cyprus. Her main areas of interest are archaic lyric poetry, Plato, reception studies and the teaching of classics. She has published several articles on Pindar, Plato, Thucydides, and Yannis Ritsos; she is also the co-editor of Debating with the Eumenides: Aspects of the Reception of Tragedy in Modern Greece (Cambridge Scholars 2018). Antonis Tsakmakis is Associate Professor of Greek at the Department of Classics and Philosophy, University of Cyprus. He has published amply on Greek historiography and biography and classical drama, especially Old Comedy. His interests also include philosophy, stylistics and linguistics, narratology, cognitive poetics, reception and the teaching of Greek in secondary education. He has published a series of textbooks for High Schools.

"Overall, the volume is immensely useful as a guide on 'how to read openings and closures in Plato'. This is why, ultimately, the publication perfectly fulfils its purpose of becoming a guide to the discussion of the Platonic frameworks." - Nerea Terceiro Sanmartín, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, In: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2022.06.41.