Danielle S. Allen. Why Plato Wrote. Blackwell-Bristol Lectures on Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. Pp. xii, 232. $34.95 (pb.). ISBN 978-1-1184-5439-8. The 2010 hb is still in print: $69.95. ISBN 978-1-4443-3448-7