Abstract
In the present contribution I intend to argue the connection between the paradigmatic employment of the weaving technique within the Sophist and the Cratylus and the one in the Statesman. In the first part I will cast light on Plato’s perfect knowledge of the articulation of weaving as a series of individual procedures, within the corpus of his dialogues. In the second part I will try to analyse every passage within the second tetralogy where weaving plays a paradigmatic role and to show the existence of a fil rouge focused on showing nature and scope of dialecticts connected to its employment. As a conclusion, I will try to argue that Plato’s choice of weaving as a paradigm for dialectics depends on his conscious re-employment of an archaic paradigm for poetic composition fostering the didactic aim of his philosophic-political theory.
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