ALCIBIADES AND THE SOCRATIC LOVER-EDUCATOR by Harold Tarrant (Editor), Marguerite Johnson (Editor) ( 9780715640869 )

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ALCIBIADES AND THE SOCRATIC LOVER-EDUCATOR

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Harold Tarrant (Editor), Marguerite Johnson (Editor)

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25 August, 2011

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272

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This collection of scholarly papers covers aspects of the context and background to Alcibiades I; the philosophical issues it raises; its relationship to other Platonic texts, and its subsequent history.

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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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