By questioning the modern categories of Plato and Platonism, this book offers new ways of reading the Platonic dialogues and the many traditions that resonate in them from Antiquity to Post-Modernity.

Kevin Corrigan is Professor of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. His most recent books are Reading Plotinus: a practical guide to Neoplatonism(2004) and Plato's Dialectic at Play: Structure, Argument and Myth in the Symposium(2004) (with Elena Glazov-Corrigan).
John D. Turner is Cotner Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His most recent books are critical editions of the Nag Hammadi Codices: Zostrien (NH VIII, 1) (2000), Marsanès (NH X,1) (2001), L'Allogène (2004); a collection of edited essays, Gnosticism and Later Platonism: Themes, Figures, and Texts (2001), and a monograph, Sethian Gnosticism and the Platonic Tradition (2001).