With one notable exception, this volume contains papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during the academic year 2006-7. That exception is the colloquium in which Alasdair MacIntyre offers a fresh reading of Plato's "Republic". Indeed, most of the papers included in this volume discuss a wide range of topics related to Plato, for instance, the dangers of misology in the "Phaedo", the Socratic use of rhetoric in the "Gorgias", Plato's anti-hedonism in the "Philebus", the link between mythical and logical thinking in the "Symposium", and...