In recent years, considerable attention has been paid to the role of ‘mythos’ in Plato’s dialogues and the reception of this discourse in Middle Platonic works/manuals and among Neoplatonic philosophers, notably Plotinus and Porphyry. This project focuses on contemporary and later Christian philosophers and Neoplatonic philosophers and commentators, notably Iamblichus and pupils (Syrian school), Plutarch of Athens, Syrianus, Proclus, Damascius and Olympiodorus the Younger, and their views on the dynamics of Plato's original myths both on a cognitive and non-cognitive level.