This new book on Giovanni Reale platter is not only the sum, but, from one point of view, the complement of all their previous work, with some new features that the author feels a certain relief. For some time, some scholars have rightly observed that Plato is situated in a quite exceptional historical moment, which reaches the full cultural development of truly revolutionary importance. The main objective of this book, the result now four decades of Platonic studies of the author, wants to be to make some contributions to the correction of certain parameters that seek to impose, and to reconstruct the features of Plato as a writer, poet and mythologist, Unlike thinker. It features much richer and complex than many people think, and that is unparalleled. According to Reale, Plato is "without more, the greatest of the philosophers" who has appeared on the earth today, and the task of whoever wants to understand and make clear to others, even if gradually approaching the truth, not never can end. Plato was born the seventh day of the month of Thargelion, the same day on which it is stated that Apollo was born. It is said that Socrates had dreamed he was on his knees a little swan, suddenly opening the wings, flew and sang sweetly, and, the next day Plato came before him and told him that he was himself young swan Diogenes Laertius , III, 2, III, 5 I also think the swans mate in their service and dedication to the same god, Apollo, and I think have received from God, no less than they, the gift of divination. Plato, Phaedo 85 B