I am wondering if Plato can be read as an amusing narrative without bothering to inquire about what it means?
An old friend from 40 years ago was over for a visit of several hours last friday. He has lectured extensively on the topic of greek philosophy. He teaches something sort of like the foundations western civilization for people from other cultures. Anyway, I don't have much interest in greek philosophy but after doing some work in the Apocalypse this morning I picked up LOEB Plato v1 and read some of the first page of CRITO. It looks to me like this could be amusing if not taken too seriously. The greek is easy. No need to fuss and bother with all kinds of secondary literature. Nothing on the order of reading Sophocles or Aeschylus. Does anyone else read Plato just for the dialogue?