Author: Ryan C. Fowler<br />File Type: pdf<br />Imperial Platopresents new translations of three introductions to Platos thought from the second half of the second century CEtheIntroduction to Platoby Albinus of Smyrna,Dissertation11of Maximus of Tyre,andOn Plato and his Teachingby Apuleius ofMadaurus. These three presentations of Platos ideasonea Greek dialectic introduction with asuggested reading orderfor Platos dialogues, anothera Greek speech in the sophistic style of the time, and one a lengthy doxological study in Latinare examplesby threedistinct authors using divergent methodsof the assorted ways in which Plato and Platonism were understood and discussed during the revival of Hellenism and Greek Philosophy, and the period of the Roman Empire often referred to as the Second Sophistic. **