Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator,9780715640869

Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator

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ISBN13: 9780715640869
ISBN10: 0715640860
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2012-02-16
Publisher(s): Bristol Classical Pr
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Summary

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, its authorship is still unsettled; the essays and two appendices, one historical and one stylometric, come together to suggest answers to this tantalising question.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributorsp. vii
Prefacep. x
Introductionp. 1
The role of Eros in Improving the Pupil, or What Socrates Learned from Sapphop. 7
Socrates and Platonic Models of Lovep. 30
The Eye of the Beloved: Opsis and Eros in Socratic Pedagogyp. 45
Plato's Oblique Response to Issues of Socrates' Influence on Alcibiades: An Examination of the Protagoras and the Gorgiasp. 61
Socratic Ignorance, or the Place of the Alcibiades I in Plato's Early Worksp. 77
Did Alcibiades Learn Justice from the Many?p. 90
The Dual-Role Philosophers: An Exploration of a Failed Relationshipp. 107
Authenticity, Experiment or Development: The Alcibiades I on Virtue and Couragep. 119
Revaluing Megalopsuchia: Reflections on the Alcibiades IIp. 134
Improvement by Love: From Aeschines to the Old Academyp. 147
Ice-Cold in Alex: Philo's Treatment of the Divine Lover in Hellenistic Pedagogyp. 164
Proclus' Reading of Plato's Sokratikoi Logoi: Proclus' Observations on Dialectic at Alcibiades 112d-114e and Elsewherep. 180
Socrates' Divine Sign: From the Alcibiades to Olympiodorusp. 190
'The Individual' in History and History 'in General'. Alcibiades Philosophical History and Ideas in Contestp. 200
Fourth-Century Politics and the Date of the Alcibiades Ip. 215
Report on the Working Vocabulary in the Doubtful Dialoguesp. 223
The Working Vocabulary of the Alcibiades
The Working Vocabulary of the Theages
Bibliographyp. 237
Index to Platonic Worksp. 251
General Indexp. 252
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