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Rediscovering the Alcibiades Major

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Author : M. Jorge de Carvalho, Samuel Oliveira
Publisher : Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press
ISBN 13 : 9892620127
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Rediscovering the Alcibiades Major written by M. Jorge de Carvalho, Samuel Oliveira and published by Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a well-known fact that Kant used the lament of the Trojan queen, Hecuba, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses to describe the fate of metaphysics. But these words could equally be used to describe the peculiar fate of the Alcibiades Major. There was a time when this small dialogue was held in high regard and enjoyed much authority.2 The Alcibiades Major was unreservedly attributed to Plato. It was much read, quoted and alluded to. And it is no exaggeration to say that it was one of the key works of the corpus platonicum. The contrast with the present could hardly be more striking.

The Platonic Alcibiades I

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Author : François Renaud
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521199123
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book The Platonic Alcibiades I written by François Renaud and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book re-examines the drama and philosophy of Alcibiades I through the eyes of those interpreters who cherished it most.

The Second Alcibiades

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Author : Plato
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781721756629
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book The Second Alcibiades written by Plato and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second Alcibiades Plato We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator

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Author : Marguerite Johnson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472504461
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator written by Marguerite Johnson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully focussed volume covers aspects of the background to Alcibiades I; the philosophical issues it raises and its relationship to other Platonic texts.

Politics of the Soul in the Alcibiades

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Author : James M. Magrini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781433182679
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book Politics of the Soul in the Alcibiades written by James M. Magrini and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is an exceptional book. James M. Magrini combines original scholarship with an innovative reading of Plato's dialogue, which develops into a study that highlights and, importantly, recuperates the importance of the Alcibiades for reflections on ethics, justice, and self-cultivation. By conducting a stringent analysis of Plato's Alcibiades in terms of politics, power, ethics, and their inter-relationship, Magrini uncovers the striking actuality of the dialogue in today's political climate. I strongly recommend Magrini's text to scholars and students alike within the Humanities and the Social Sciences.”--Elias Schwieler, Professor, Stockholm University.

Nemesis

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Author : David Stuttard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674919661
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Nemesis written by David Stuttard and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of the Golden Age of Athens. A ward of Pericles and a friend of Socrates, he was spectacularly rich, bewitchingly handsome and charismatic, a skilled general, and a ruthless politician. He was also a serial traitor, infamous for his dizzying changes of loyalty in the Peloponnesian War. Nemesis tells the story of this extraordinary life and the turbulent world that Alcibiades set out to conquer. David Stuttard recreates ancient Athens at the height of its glory as he follows Alcibiades from childhood to political power. Outraged by Alcibiades’ celebrity lifestyle, his enemies sought every chance to undermine him. Eventually, facing a capital charge of impiety, Alcibiades escaped to the enemy, Sparta. There he traded military intelligence for safety until, suspected of seducing a Spartan queen, he was forced to flee again—this time to Greece’s long-term foes, the Persians. Miraculously, though, he engineered a recall to Athens as Supreme Commander, but—suffering a reversal—he took flight to Thrace, where he lived as a warlord. At last in Anatolia, tracked by his enemies, he died naked and alone in a hail of arrows. As he follows Alcibiades’ journeys crisscrossing the Mediterranean from mainland Greece to Syracuse, Sardis, and Byzantium, Stuttard weaves together the threads of Alcibiades’ adventures against a backdrop of cultural splendor and international chaos. Navigating often contradictory evidence, Nemesis provides a coherent and spellbinding account of a life that has gripped historians, storytellers, and artists for more than two thousand years.

Alcibiades I

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Author : Plato
Publisher : Aeterna Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alcibiades I written by Plato and published by Aeterna Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Aeterna Press

Alcibiades

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Author : Plutarchus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Alcibiades written by Plutarchus and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alcibiades and Athens

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Author : David Gribble
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019154146X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Alcibiades and Athens written by David Gribble and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1999-03-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not the aim of this book to add to the extensive literature on Alcibiades' life and career. Instead the author focuses on the explosive mix of fear and fascination excited by Alcibiades in his contemporaries and in particular in key literary texts: Thucydides, the mysterious pseudo-Andocides 4, the encomium of Isocrates 16, the final scene of Plato's Symposium. The book is about the acute tension between the classical city and the individual of superlative power, status, and ambition. It looks at the way Alcibiades is approximated to archetypes of the individual 'outside' the city: the tyrant, the athletic victor, the ostracism victim, the scapegoat, the barbarian. Whereas modern discussions of ancient Athens and Athenian civic texts stress collective ideology, this study focuses on the opposing strand in tension with this dominant ideology: the fascination with the powerful individual. The book is thus at once a contribution to the study of civic ideology, and also to that of the individual and of the role of the individual in classical texts - rhetoric, the historiography of Thucydides, the Platonic dialogue. The book also considers the development of the post-classical depiction of Alcibiades, concluding with a study of Plutarch's reaction both to this tradition and to the classical texts.

Alcibiades

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Author : Jack Meyer
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1466923970
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Alcibiades written by Jack Meyer and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-08 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is he just a troublemaker with an attitude? Or will this spunky youth grow up to do something great? The populace of Athens holds varied opinions about Alcibiades, a handsome boy who exhibits a devious and audacious personality. Based on historical record, author Jack Meyer reconstructs the life of Alcibiades, a man who uniquely impacted classical Athens during the Peloponnesian War. An orphan, Alcibiades grew up in the household of Pericles, was Socrates’ favorite student, and was immensely handsome and rich. This narrative tells the story of the stunning career of this brilliant tactical military commander, persuasive orator, and consummate traitor who switched sides three times during the war. The city’s own favorite son, this product of the Golden Age, was a man as morally corrupt as he was convincingly eloquent. The reconstruction of Alcibiades’ story breeds both fiction and farce, and this story of the Greek experience serves as an analogue for a critique of today’s American foreign policy.

Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades

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Author : Simon Verdegem
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9058677605
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades written by Simon Verdegem and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the second century C.E., Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote a series of pairs of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen. Their purpose is moral: the reader is invited to reflect on important ethical issues and to use the example of these great men from the past to improve his or her own conduct. This book off ers the first full-scale commentary on the Life of Alcibiades. It examines how Plutarch's biography of one of classical Athens' most controversial politicians functions within the moral program of the Parallel Lives. Built upon the narratological distinction between story and text, Simon Verdegem's analysis, which involves detailed comparisons with other Plutarchan works (especially the Lives of Nicias and Lysander) and several key texts in the Alcibiades tradition (e.g., Plato, Thucydides, and Xenophon), demonstrates how Plutarch carefully constructed his story and used a wide range of narrative techniques to create a complex Life that raises interesting questions about the relation between private morality and the common good.

First Alcibiades

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Author : Plato
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781976581397
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book First Alcibiades written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Alcibiades or Alcibiades I is a dialogue featuring Alcibiades in conversation with Socrates. It is ascribed to Plato, although scholars are divided on the question of its authenticity. In the preface Alcibiades is described as an ambitious young man who is eager to enter public life. He is extremely proud of his good looks, noble birth, many friends, possessions and his connection to Pericles, the leader of the Athenian state. Alcibiades has many admirers but they have all run away, afraid of his coldness. Socrates was the first of his admirers but he has not spoken to him for many years. Now the older man tries to help the youth with his questions before Alcibiades presents himself in front of the Athenian assembly. For the rest of the dialogue Socrates explains the many reasons why Alcibiades needs him. By the end of Alcibiades I, the youth is much persuaded by Socrates' reasoning, and accepts him as his mentor. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

The Life of Alcibiades

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Author : Jacqueline de Romilly
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501739964
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Alcibiades written by Jacqueline de Romilly and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of Alcibiades, the charismatic Athenian statesman and general (c. 450–404 BC) who achieved both renown and infamy during the Peloponnesian War, is both an extraordinary adventure story and a cautionary tale that reveals the dangers that political opportunism and demagoguery pose to democracy. As Jacqueline de Romilly brilliantly documents, Alcibiades's life is one of wanderings and vicissitudes, promises and disappointments, brilliant successes and ruinous defeats. Born into a wealthy and powerful family in Athens, Alcibiades was a student of Socrates and disciple of Pericles, and he seemed destined to dominate the political life of his city—and his tumultuous age. Romilly shows, however, that he was too ambitious. Haunted by financial and sexual intrigues and political plots, Alcibiades was exiled from Athens, sentenced to death, recalled to his homeland, only to be exiled again. He defected from Athens to Sparta and from Sparta to Persia and then from Persia back to Athens, buffeted by scandal after scandal, most of them of his own making. A gifted demagogue and, according to his contemporaries, more handsome than the hero Achilles, Alcibiades is also a strikingly modern figure, whose seductive celebrity and dangerous ambition anticipated current crises of leadership.

Alcibiades (Annotated)

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Author : Plato
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781539739319
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book Alcibiades (Annotated) written by Plato and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-26 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Alcibiades or Alcibiades I is a dialogue featuring Alcibiades in conversation with Socrates. It is ascribed to Plato, although scholars are divided on the question of its authenticity. The Second Alcibiades or Alcibiades II is a dialogue traditionally ascribed to Plato. In it, Socrates attempts to persuade Alcibiades that it is unsafe for him to pray to the gods if he does not know whether what he prays for is actually good or bad for him.

Three Lives

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Author : Cornelius Nepos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Three Lives written by Cornelius Nepos and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Commentary on the First Alcibiades of Plato, Critical Text and Indices...

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Author : Olympiodore (platonicien.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book Commentary on the First Alcibiades of Plato, Critical Text and Indices... written by Olympiodore (platonicien.) and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ambition to Rule

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Author : Steven Forde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Ambition to Rule written by Steven Forde and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: