Socrates and Alcibiades: Four Texts: Plato's Alcibiades I & II, Symposium (212c-223a), Aeschines' Alcibiades (Focus Philosophical Library (Paperback)) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Socrates and Alcibiades: Four Texts Selections from Plato's 'Symposium', 'Alcibiades I', and 'Alcibiades II', with the complete fragments of the dialogue 'Alcibiades' by Aeschines of Sphettus. These translations and their accompanying notes and essay provide a rich discussion of how Athens' greatest philosopher loved and tried to teach his most ambitious young student, and why Athens turned on both of them.
Full description- Publisher: Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co
- Published: 01 April 2003
- Format: Paperback 124 pages
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- Categories: Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Philosophy | Western Philosophy: Ancient, To C 500
- ISBN 13: 9781585100699 ISBN 10: 1585100692
- Sales rank: 884,832
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"Socrates and Alcibiades: Four Texts "gathers together translations our four most important sources for the relationship between Socrates and the most controversial man of his day, the gifted and scandalous Alcibiades. In addition to Alcibiades' famous speech from Plato's Symposium, this text includes two dialogues, the Alcibiades I and Alcibiades II, attributed to Plato in antiquity but unjustly neglected today, and the complete fragments of the dialogue Alcibiades by Plato's contemporary, Aeschines of Sphettus. These works are essential reading for anyone interested in Socrates' improbable love affair with Athens' most desirable youth, his attempt to woo Alcibiades from his ultimately disastrous worldly ambitions to the philosophical life, and the reasons for Socrates' failure, which played a large role in his conviction by an Athenian court on charges of impiety and corrupting the youth. Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Plato's immediate audience.
