Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator
by Tarrant, Harold; Johnson, MargueriteFormat: 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.
Harold Tarrant is Professor of Classics, University of Newcastle, Australia.
Table of Contents
| Notes on Contributors | p. vii |
| Preface | p. x |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The role of Eros in Improving the Pupil, or What Socrates Learned from Sappho | p. 7 |
| Socrates and Platonic Models of Love | p. 30 |
| The Eye of the Beloved: Opsis and Eros in Socratic Pedagogy | p. 45 |
| Plato's Oblique Response to Issues of Socrates' Influence on Alcibiades: An Examination of the Protagoras and the Gorgias | p. 61 |
| Socratic Ignorance, or the Place of the Alcibiades I in Plato's Early Works | p. 77 |
| Did Alcibiades Learn Justice from the Many? | p. 90 |
| The Dual-Role Philosophers: An Exploration of a Failed Relationship | p. 107 |
| Authenticity, Experiment or Development: The Alcibiades I on Virtue and Courage | p. 119 |
| Revaluing Megalopsuchia: Reflections on the Alcibiades II | p. 134 |
| Improvement by Love: From Aeschines to the Old Academy | p. 147 |
| Ice-Cold in Alex: Philo's Treatment of the Divine Lover in Hellenistic Pedagogy | p. 164 |
| Proclus' Reading of Plato's Sokratikoi Logoi: Proclus' Observations on Dialectic at Alcibiades 112d-114e and Elsewhere | p. 180 |
| Socrates' Divine Sign: From the Alcibiades to Olympiodorus | p. 190 |
| 'The Individual' in History and History 'in General'. Alcibiades Philosophical History and Ideas in Contest | p. 200 |
| Fourth-Century Politics and the Date of the Alcibiades I | p. 215 |
| Report on the Working Vocabulary in the Doubtful Dialogues | p. 223 |
| The Working Vocabulary of the Alcibiades | |
| The Working Vocabulary of the Theages | |
| Bibliography | p. 237 |
| Index to Platonic Works | p. 251 |
| General Index | p. 252 |
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