Persons of the dialogue: + 

Socrates, who is the narrator + 

Cephalus + 

Glaucon + 

Thrasymachus + 

Adeimantus + 

Cleitophon + 

Polemarchus + 

And others who are mute auditors. + 

The scene is laid in the house of Cephalus at the Piraeus; and the whole dialogue is narrated by Socrates the day after it actually took place to Timaeus, Hermocrates, Critias, and a nameless person, who are introduced in the “Timaeus.” + 