PREFACE

Form that our work would take. For those interested in Lycos' contribution, many of the longer notes in the earlier lectures concerning Callicles A character in Plato's Gorgias known for his hedonistic and power-seeking views. preserve what is essentially his material.

The Australian Research Council, the University of Sydney, and the University of Melbourne are thanked here for their financial support. We are grateful for permission from Oxford University Press to use extracts from T. Irwin (trans. and ed.), Plato: Gorgias, Oxford Clarendon Plato Series, 1979. Thanks are also due to the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge, whose hospitality allowed us to prepare the final manuscript in an atmosphere conducive to study. The number of people whose interest and assistance deserve recognition is too large to name everyone individually, but we offer a general "thank you" to our colleagues in Philosophy and Classics, primarily in Australia and New Zealand, who commented on oral papers related to this project, and to those who reviewed our written work as anonymous referees. Thanks are also due to the editors of Philosophia Antiqua for their helpful and perceptive comments on parts of the translation and the introduction at an earlier stage.

H.A.S.T. and K.R.J.
University of Newcastle, N.S.W.