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This paper will not consider the image in the Dialogues in all of its numerous and heterogeneous aspects. Nor will it discuss “literary” imagery in general. The topic is much more narrowly drawn, as “explicit” cases of eikonologia. Even though Plato attributes this (“speech by images”) to the orators, he also practices it himself and often warns us by highlighting it in his text by means of an explicit metadiscourse entrusted to his spokesmen. Indeed, what the paper addresses here are the “literary” images, made with the logos alone, which the writer Plato names and marks as such while asserting their legitimacy or necessity. How does he write when he claims to abandon concept for description, dialectic for fiction? And what do those figures that the text refers to as eikones tell us about the philosophical image and logos?