 Some commentators try to keep kalon and “beautiful” close to synonymous despite these differences in their semantic ranges (Hyland 2008). David Konstan has rejuvenated the question by emphasizing the beauty not in uses of the adjective kalon but in the related noun kallos (Konstan 2014, Konstan 2015). As welcome as this shift of focus is regarding Greek writing as a whole, it runs into difficulties when we read Plato; for kallos carries overtones of physical, visual attractiveness, and Plato is cautious about the desire that such attractiveness arouses.