TY - BOOK ID - 78143174 TI - Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator AU - Tarrant, Harold AU - Johnson, Marguerite PY - 2011 SN - 1472502620 1472554507 1299051669 1472502612 9781472502612 9780715640869 0715640860 9781472502629 9781472554505 9781299051669 9781472504463 PB - Bristol: Bristol classical press, DB - UniCat KW - Plato. KW - Plato KW - Plato - Alcibiades I UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78143174 AB - 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. ER -