Table of Contents:
  • Drama and dialogue
  • Reading Plato
  • Plato the "dramatist"
  • Why dialogue form?
  • The imitation of character
  • "Character"
  • The Platonic Sokrates
  • Mimetic pedagogy
  • The elenctic Sokrates at work: Hippias Minor
  • The elenctic Sokrates
  • Hippias and Homer
  • Sokrates and Hippias
  • Rewriting Homer
  • A changing cast of characters: Republic
  • Socratic testing: three responses
  • Playing devil's advocate
  • Sokrates and the sons of Ariston
  • Self-censorship
  • Learning by example
  • Reproducing Sokrates: Theaetetus
  • Sokrates and the philosopher prince
  • Likeness
  • Difference
  • Cutting the cord
  • Becoming Sokrates
  • Putting Sokrates in his place: Sophist and Statesman
  • Plato's triad
  • The Man with No Name
  • Homogenized, pasteurized respondents
  • The visitor's pedagogy
  • Assaulting the father
  • A place for everything, and everything in its place
  • A word is worth a thousand pictures
  • The visitor and Sokrates
  • Silencing Sokrates.