This book is the first sustained modern investigation of Plato s theology. A central thesis of the book is that Plato "had "a theologynot just a mythology for the ideal city, not just the theory of forms or the theory of cosmic souls, but also, irreducible to any of these, an account of God as "Nous "(Reason), the source of rational order both to souls and the world of bodies. The understanding of God as Reason, and of the world as governed directly or indirectly by Reason, is worked out in the dialogues of Plato s last period, the "Statesman, Philebus, Timaeus, "and "Laws. "These...