Protagoras protagonists

Thanks to the kindness of a colleague who usually teaches our Ancient Phil course (and who has let me take the rotation next year to teach it), I’ll be thinking about what Platonic dialogues to include. Harman discusses the Protagoras’s opening, which I had left off my brief list. But yes, it is Plato’s best deadpan. I guess on this topic, nothing could beat the Symposium, which we tend to leave undiscussed because it’s so well known. This also raises what would be a great paper (and surely someone’s written it) namely on a working theory of what links people that Plato does not identify (namely the “friend” at the opening).