ABSTRACT
The chapter draws out the hyper-complexity of Plato’s dialogue Parmenides by presenting an extended meditation on and exposition about just how much Plato packed in to its very first page. Plato’s Parmenides is unique among his dialogues for the mode by which the events of the dialogue are narrated, as well as in the uncanny way that every interpreter seems to disagree about the fundamental point of this dialogue. The former is an internal aspect; the latter is an external one. But there is a concrete relation between the two.
