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Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator

Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator

Hardcover

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0715640860
ISBN13: 9780715640869
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Published: Feb 16 2012
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

In the Platonic work Alcibiades I, a divinely guided Socrates adopts the guise of a lover in order to divert Alcibiades from an unthinking political career. The contributors to this carefully focussed volume cover aspects of the background to the work; its arguments and the philosophical issues it raises; its relationship to other Platonic texts, and its subsequent history up to the time of the Neoplatonists. Despite its ancient prominence, the authorship of Alcibiades I is still unsettled; the essays and two appendices, one historical and one stylometric, come together to suggest answers to this tantalising question.

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