Alcibiades I & II

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The First Alcibiades is a conversation between Socrates and Alcibiades. Socrates is represented in the character which he attributes to himself in the Apology of a know-nothing who detects the conceit of knowledge in others. The two have met already in the Protagoras and in the Symposium; in the latter dialogue as in this the relation between them is that of a lover and his beloved. But the narrative of their loves is told differently in different places; for in the Symposium Alcibiades is depicted as the impassioned but rejected lover; here as coldly receiving the advances of Socrates who for the best of purposes lies in wait for the aspiring and ambitious youth. Alcibiades who is described as a very young man is about to enter on public life having an inordinate opinion of himself and an extravagant ambition. Socrates 'who knows what is in man' astonishes him by a revelation of his designs