The Introduction is jointly written by Catalin Partenie, Luc Brisson, and John Dillon as follows: Catalin Partenie wrote ‘Plato’s Life and Work’, ‘Myth and Philosophy’, ‘The Contradiction between Plato’s Preaching and Practice’; Catalin Partenie and Luc Brisson wrote the first section, ‘Plato’s Myths’, and ‘Why Did Plato Write Myths?’; John Dillon wrote ‘Plato’s Myths in the Later Platonist Tradition’.

¹ The Mask of Apollo (London: Longmans, 1966), by Mary Renault, is an interesting novel about Plato’s misadventures in Sicily.