Over the last years, the interest in the origin and development of Platonism in the Imperial Period has grown exponentially. This fact is largely due to the ac- knowledgement that Western philosophical thought has been fundamentally shaped by the way ancient and late ancient Platonists read Plato’s dialogues and how they were transmitted to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, thus triggering centuries of debate that characterise the long history of Platonism. Scholars have investigated in depth the metaphysical and to a certain extent the epistemological and ethical aspects of this reception.