Prelude (227-230)

The Speech of Lysias (231-234)

Interlude—Socrates’s First Speech (234-241)

Interlude—Socrates’s Second Speech (242-245)

The Myth. The Allegory of the Charioteer and His Horses—Love Is the Regrowth of the Wings of the Soul—The Charioteer Allegory Resumed (246-257)

Introduction to the Discussion of Rhetoric—The Myth of the Cicadas (258-259)

The Necessity of Knowledge for a True Art of Rhetoric—The Speeches of Socrates Illustrate a New Philosophical Method (258-269)

A Review of the Devices and Technical Terms of Contemporary Rhetoric—Rhetoric as Philosophy—The Inferiority of the Written to the Spoken Word (269-277)

Recapitulation and Conclusion (277-279)