| Alcibiades I & II Contributor(s): Plato (Author), 1st World Library (Editor), 1stworld Library (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1421808447 ISBN-13: 9781421808444 Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society OUR PRICE: $25.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2006 Annotation: 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 |
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| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.77 lbs) 168 pages |