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

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

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