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List of Contributors -- Introduction, Hallvard Fossheim, Vigdis Songe-Møller and Knut Ågotnes -- Part 1 Genre and the Philosophical Dialogue 1. The Whole Comedy and Tragedy of Philosophy: On Aristophanes' Speech in Plato's Symposium, Drew Hyland, Pennsylvania State University, USA 2. A Praise of the Philosophical Written Speech? Ethics and Philosophical Progression in Plato's Symposium, Elena Irrera, University of Bologna, Italy 3. Socrates' Appeals to Homer's Achilles in Plato's Apology of Socrates and Crito, Hayden W. Ausland, University of Montana, USA 4. Plato's Ring of Gyges and 'Das Leben der Anderen', Jacob Howland, University of Tulsa, USA Part 2 Virtue and Soul-shaping 5. Plato's Inverted Theatre: Displacing the Wisdom of the Poets, Paul Woodruff, University of Texas at Austin, USA 6. Gods, Giants and Philosophers: On Being, Education and Dialogue in Plato's Sophist 245e6-249d5, Jens Kristian Larsen, University of Bergen, Norway 7. Philotimia. On Rhetoric, Virtues and Honour in the Symposium, Knut Ågotnes, University of Bergen, Norway Part 3 Reason and Irrationality 8. The Significance of the Ambiguity of Music in Plato, Kristin Sampson, University of Bergen, Norway 9. Pleasure, Perception and Images in Plato, Cynthia Freeland, University of Houston, USA 10. The Limits of Rationality in Plato's Phaedo, Hallvard Fossheim, University of Bergen, Norway Part 4 Place and Displacement 11. Place (topos) and Strangeness (atopia) in the Phaedrus, Erlend Breidal, University of Bergen, Norway -- 12. Hunt: Method and Metaphor. A Reading of the Sophist 216a1-226a6, Gro Rørstadbotten, University of Bergen, Norway 13. Plato's Sophist: A Different Look, John Sallis, Boston College, USA.