| Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator Contributor(s): Tarrant, Harold, Johnson, Marguerite |
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ISBN: 0715640860 ISBN-13: 9780715640869 Publisher: Bristol Classical Press OUR PRICE: $217.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical - Philosophy | History & Surveys - General |
| Dewey: 184 |
| LCCN: 2012041068 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.25 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |