This book studies the reception of Plato's dialogues as performance texts by his original audience and his readers down to late antiquity.

1. Setting the stage; 2. The metatheatre of dialogue; 3. Performing Plato; 4. Plato's theatre: the fragments; Finale; Appendix: an Academy inscription.

Nikos G. Charalabopoulos is Lecturer in the Department of Philology at the University of Patras.