Eleven of the chapters included in this volume are based on papers delivered at the conference titled ‘Framing the Dialogues: How to Read Openings and Closures in Plato’, held at the University of Cyprus in December 2015. Three of the essays were specifically written for this volume in order to add a broader and more coherent perspective to the complicated and multi-faceted issue of Platonic openings and closures.
Greek personal names and names of places are latinised. Individual Greek words or phrases, as well as termini technici, are generally transliterated and italicised, unless the context makes the Greek form more appropriate. Abbreviations of the names and works of ancient authors are cited according to the list in The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Journals are cited according to the abbreviations in the American Journal of Archaeology.
We would like to express our gratitude to the anonymous reader for his/her astute comments and constructive criticisms. Warm thanks are also due to the editors of Brill’s Plato Studies Series for their support and editorial advice.