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Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator

Harold Tarrant editor Marguerite Johnson editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:7th Nov '13

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This carefully focussed volume covers aspects of the background to Alcibiades I; the philosophical issues it raises and its relationship to other Platonic texts.

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.

ISBN: 9781472504463

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 376g

272 pages