The book is written for anyone seriously interested in Plato's thought and in the history of literary theory or of rhetoric.

It is thought that Plato, the Athenian philosopher, was born in 428 BCE, and died at the age of eighty or eighty-one.

Plato (424-348 BCE) was a student of Socrates and a revolutionary thinker, pondering the meaning of "Justice" and the role of the "State" in this monumental work.