This volume is a valuable handbook and a comprehensive guide to Plato’s life and work and his influence on later philosophical thought up to the present day. Written by a multitude of expert scholars, it offers a thorough and penetrating survey of all the fields of Plato’s thought (Ontology, Logic, Gnosticism, Psychology, Ethics and Political Philosophy, Cosmology, Theology, Pedagogy, Aesthetics, etc. He integrates it precisely into its historical-philosophical context, analyses in depth all the fundamental concepts of his teaching, and takes into account not only the philosophical but also the special literary weight of Plato’s work. The bibliographical information surrounding each specific topic is impeccably selected and completely up-to-date.

The book fills an important gap in the Greek-language literature and constitutes an essential and handy tool for all those interested in some of the multiple aspects of Plato’s leading work. A significant part of the philosopher’s original works has been added to the Greek edition in order to give the reader access to his most representative texts (Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, Lysis, Menon, Phaedrus, Phaedrus, Symposium, Politia, Theaetetus, Timaeus, Epistle VII).

Maria Liatsis is Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the Department of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki..