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Mentioned as Plato's attempt to describe the ideal form a city should take, in which he argues that poets like Homer and Hesiod should be banned.

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Quoted directly regarding Plato's view that when studying astronomy, one should 'approach it as we approach geometry by way of working out problems and ignore what's in the sky' - used to illustrate how Greeks prioritized theory over experiment.

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Explicitly mentioned as 'the most famous text that Plato writes about this question is called The Republic' - discussed as Plato's work on ideal forms of government

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Discussed as the primary source for the Atlantis story; a reading from this work opens the episode

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Discussed as one of 'two other dialogues' by Plato where the story of Atlantis is told - the dialogue features Socrates and others including Critias discussing the ideal state

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Explicitly described as 'a book called The Laws' by Plato, noted as being 'a very kind of, compared to his other works, kind of very arid' and 'essentially what it says on the tin. It's a list of laws'

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Discussed as the second dialogue by Plato about Atlantis - 'we then move on to the second dialogue which is actually called Critias where we get back to it'

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Referenced in the discussion of Aspasia and Socrates - described as 'Pericles great kind of dialogue in which Socrates gives his great theory of love' where Socrates credits a woman named Diatima for his philosophy of love.

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Referenced as 'one of Plato's dialogues' containing 'a famous passage' about the Egyptian god Thoth presenting the invention of writing to the Pharaoh, who was 'absolutely appalled' - used to illustrate historical resistance to new technology