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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.>

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Marguerite Johnson is Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Newcastle, Australia.
Harold Tarrant is Professor of Classics, University of Newcastle, Australia.


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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.

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Authors JOHNSON MARGUERITE UNIVERSITY OF, Marguerite Johnson, Marguerite (University of Newcastle Johnson, Harold Tarrant
Assisted by Marguerite Johnson (Editor), Harold Tarrant (Editor)
Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
 
Content Book
Product form Hardback
Publication date 16.02.2012
Subject Fiction > Poetry, drama
Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries
 
EAN 9780715640869
ISBN 978-0-7156-4086-9
Pages 272
 
Subjects LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
Literature - Classics / Criticism
 

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