Walter Pater (1839-94) was the foremost Victorian writer on art and on aesthetic experience. These lectures on Plato were a product of Pater's teaching at the University of Oxford, but underwent several rounds of revision before being published in 1893. This volume forms part of his collected works (1900-1).

Pater's lectures on Plato were first published in 1893, and reissued in his collected works of 1900-1.