Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0715640860
• ISBN13: 9780715640869
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"