Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator. Volume Editor Harold Tarrant Marguerite Johnson
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.
| Publisher Name | Bloomsbury Academic |
|---|---|
| Author Name | Hagendorf, Col |
| Format | Audio |
| Bisac Subject Major | LIT |
| Language | NG |
| Isbn 10 | 1472504461 |
| Isbn 13 | 9781472504463 |
| Target Age Group | min:NA, max:NA |
| Dimensions | 00.92" H x 10.06" L x 14.00" W |
| Page Count | 272 |
Marguerite Johnson is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Newcastle, Australia. She is the co-author of Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature: A Sourcebook, and author of Sappho: Ancients in Action, also published by Bloomsbury.
Harold Tarrant is Professor of Classics, University of Newcastle, Australia.
