“. . . Philosopher in Plato’s Statesman . . . gives a detailed and sensitive reading of this dialogue as a dialogue, in which he sees Plato delivering a cautionary message to young Academics (represented by the Younger Socrates). Their crude reading of the Republic has led them to believe that they should champion dictatorship. But the ‘Homeric’ image of the statesman as shepherd is challenged in the reworking of Hesiod that forms the central myth of the dialogue . . . To this text, Miller appends an essay first published in 1999 in which he shows that the fifteen arts which are the ultimate product of the investigation in the Statesman are produced and organized according to an ontological scheme which corresponds with the ‘unwritten doctrines’ of Plato listed by Aristotle.