Introduction: Literacy, dramatic form, metaphysics: rereading Plato's rhetoric
The "cosmetics" of sophistry: seeming and being in the Gorgias
The oral poet and the literate sophist: divine madness and rhetorical inoculation in the Phaedrus
Heraclitean opposition and Parmenidean contradiction: pre-Socratic ontology and Protagorean sophistry in the Cratylus, the Theaetetus, and the Euthydemus
Sophistry without measure, dialectic without rhetoric: the interpretive dispute in the Protagoras
The rhetoric of mimêsis: sophistic imitation and seeming in the Republic
Imitators of truth: the rhetorical theories of onoma and rhêma in the Sophist and the Cratylus
Epilogue: The past and future of Plato's rhetorical theory.