Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-educatorAlcibiades and the Socratic Lover-educator
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 ofAlcibiades I is still unsettled; the essays and two appendices, one historical and one stylometric, come together to suggest answers to this tantalising question.
This collection of scholarly papers covers aspects of the context and background toAlcibiades I; the philosophical issues it raises; its relationship to other Platonic texts, and its subsequent history.
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- Bristol : Bristol Classical, 2012.
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