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

By Marguerite Johnson

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472504461
• ISBN13: 9781472504463
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"