1. Notably Republic 376–403, 595–608.

2. e.g. Phaedna 245a, 248e Symposium 209a, Republic 398a-b, 607a, Laws 8l7b-d.

3. Flashar’s book examines in detail the possible connections of the Ion with other dialogues.

4. cf. LaDriere, p. 33, and D. Daiches, Critical Approaches to Literature (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1956), p. 9: ‘socrates begs the fundamental question concerning the difference between Dichtung and Wakrheit, between poetry and science…’ Contrast Aristotle, Poetics XXV, 1–10.

5. See in particular Schaper for a good demonstration of how the problems posed by the Ion are fundamental to aesthetics.