Christopher Bruell is professor of political science at Boston College.

• Part 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Hipparchus, or Lover of GainChapter 3 Minos, or About LawPart 4 Students and TeachersChapter 5 AlcibiadesChapter 6 Second AlcibiadesChapter 7 LachesChapter 8 EuthydemusChapter 9 Greater HippiasChapter 10 Lesser HippiasChapter 11 TheagesPart 12 The Life ItselfChapter 13 EuthyphroChapter 14 Apology of SocratesChapter 15 IonChapter 16 MenoChapter 17 ContentsPart 18 ConclusionChapter 19 CleitophonChapter 20 MenexenusChapter 21 CritoChapter 22 Index of Textual ReferencesChapter 23 About the Author

This outstanding work provides the most penetrating analysis I have yet encountered of the precise goals and methods of that educational activity in which Socrates so fully and fruitfully engaged for the benefit of himself and others. The author proceeds through an interpretation, tightly and economically focused on this theme, of the shorter Platonic dialogues—many of which have never before received so serious and so illuminating an exegesis. . . . The scholarship is meticulous, the contribution—to the fields of Plato studies, educational theory, classical philosophy, and political philosophy—truly major.