The later dialogues are less dramatic, less colorful and move to the level of the academic and the analytic.
In the previous Platonic dialogues Plato used irony and imagery in a vivid and effective manner, but not so in these later dialogues.
In addition, in previous works Plato had delved extensively into the argument but in the later dialogues he assumed that the reader is familiar with those arguments.
In other words, in the later dialogues, Plato endeavored to build a relationship with his reader and he took for granted that they had read his previous works. He opened himself and his ideas to public scrutiny and he called the reader to analyze the ideas that he had previously presented in his dialogues.
These later dialogues include:
• Critias
• Laws
• Philebus
• Sophist
• Statesman
• Timaeus
