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Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator

Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator

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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.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
266
Release Date:
2012-02-16
Publication Date:
2012-02-16
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0715640860
ISBN13:
9780715640869
Weight:
567 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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