Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator. Volume Editor Harold Tarrant Marguerite Johnson

In the Platonic work <i>Alcibiades I</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 <i>Alcibiades I</i> is still unsettled; the essays and two appendices one historical and one stylometric come together to suggest answers to this tantalising question.