| Author/Contributor(s): | Tarrant, Harold ; Johnson, Marguerite |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Date: | 01/02/2014 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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.