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^ Plutarch and Plato agree that Alcibiades "served as a soldier in the campaign of Potidaea and had Socrates for his tentmate and comrade in action" and "when Alcibiades fell wounded, it was Socrates who stood over him and defended him".
Apr 5, 2024 · Alcibiades, brilliant but unscrupulous Athenian politician and military commander who provoked the sharp political antagonisms at Athens that were the main causes of Athens’ defeat by Sparta in the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BCE). Learn more about Alcibiades’ life and career.
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Nicholas Denyer suggests that it was written in the 350s BC, when Plato, back in Athens, could reflect on the similarities between Dionysius II of Syracuse (as we know him from the Seventh Letter) and Alcibiades — two young men interested in philosophy but compromised by their ambition and faulty early education. [7]
Aug 1, 2022 · The irony is that one of the most important dialogues that sheds light on understanding Plato, Alcibiades, is one of the most ignored. This is analogous to a neophyte Bible reader starting in the book of Isaiah instead of in Genesis. Alcibiades was widely regarded as an authentic Platonic dialogue.
At the same time, the lesson imparted is simple, and the irony more transparent than in the undoubted dialogues of Plato. We know, too, that Alcibiades was a favourite thesis, and that at least five or six dialogues bearing this name passed current in antiquity, and are attributed to contemporaries of Socrates and Plato.
Jan 1, 2023 · Plato’s Alcibiades 1. Plato’s. Alcibiades. 1. Persons in the dialogue: Socrates, Alcibiades. Soc: 103A Son of Cleinias, I think you are amazed that, being your first lover, I alone have not departed now that the others have gone, and although the others conversed with you in droves, I, in contrast, have not addressed you for so many years.
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Preview. In antiquity, the First Alcibiades was considered as a genuine product by Plato. In the curriculum established by Iamblichus it served as a preparatory reading for the study of Plato’s oeuvre. The authors explore the numerous possibilities to discuss the dialogue; their intention, however, is not so much to defend its authenticity as ...
