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Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator. Volume Editor, Harold Tarrant, Marguerite Johnson

Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator. Volume Editor, Harold Tarrant, Marguerite Johnson

Paperback

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1472504461
ISBN13: 9781472504463
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jan 2 2014
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
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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