At the beginning of Book VII of the Republic Socrates quickly invites his fellows to compare human condition regarding education and its lack (παιδεία and ἀπαιδευσίας) with an imaginary scenario he immediately begins to portrait. This brief opening is like a condensed prologue to the tragedy that follows i: the so called Allegory of the Cave, which will be the object of the present paper. Outstanding literary and philosophical creation, the Cave opens at every step to hermeneutic infinity and remains a perennial source of interest and analysis; there is no need, thus, to delay in justifications.