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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.>
List of contents
Introduction
Harold Tarrant, University of Newcastle, Australia and Marguerite Johnson, University of Newcastle, Australia
The role of Eros in Improving the Pupil, or What Socrates Learned from Sappho
Marguerite Johnson, University of Newcastle, Australia
Socrates and Models of Platonic Love
Dougal Blyth, University of Auckland, New Zealand
The Eye of the Beloved: Opsis and Eros in Socratic Pedagogy
Victoria Wohl, University of Toronto, Canada
Plato's Oblique Response to Issues of Socrates' Influence on Alcibiades: An Examination of the Protagoras and the Gorgias
Reuben Ramsey, University of Newcastle, Australia
Socratic Ignorance, or the Place of the Alcibiades I in Plato's Early Works
Yuji Kurihara, Gakugei University, Tokyo
Did Alcibiades Learn Justice from the Many?
Joe Mintoff, University of Newcastle, Australia
The Dual-Role Philosophers: An Exploration of a Failed Relationship
Anthony Hooper, University of Sydney, Australia
Authenticity, Experiment or Development: The Alcibiades I on Virtue and Courage
Eugenio Benitez, University of Sydney, Australia
Revaluing Megalopsuchia: Reflections on the Alcibiades II
Matthew Sharpe, University of Melbourne, Australia
Improvement by Love: From Aeschines to the Old Academy
Harold Tarrant, University of Newcastle, Australia
Ice-Cold in Alex: Philo's Treatment of the Divine Lover in Hellenist Pedagogy
Fergus King, University of Newcastle, Australia
Proclus' Reading of Plato's Sôkratikoi Logoi: Proclus' Observations on Dialectic at Alcibiades 112d-114e and Elsewhere
Akitsugu Taki, Josai International University, Japan
Socrates' Divine Sign: From the Alcibiades to Olympiodorus
François Renaud, Université de Moncton, Canada
'The Individual' in History and History 'in General': Alcibiades, Philosophical History and Ideas in Contest
Neil Morpeth, University of Newcastle, Australia
Appendix 1. Fourth-Century Politics and the Date of the Alcibiades I
Appendix 2. Report on the Working Vocabulary in the Doubtful Dialogues
a. The Working Vocabulary of the Alcibiades
b. The Working Vocabulary of the Theages
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Marguerite Johnson is Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Newcastle, Australia.
Harold Tarrant is Professor of Classics, University of Newcastle, Australia.
Summary
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.
