Socrates and Alcibiades : : Plato's Drama of Political Ambition and Philosophy / / Ariel Helfer.
In the classical world, political ambition posed an intractable problem. Ancient Greek democracies fostered in their most promising youths a tension-ridden combination of the desire for personal glory and deep-seated public-spiritedness in hopes of producing brilliant and capable statesmen. But as m...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Socrates' Promise and Alcibiades' Failure (Alcibiades 103- 116)
- 2. The Exaltation of Virtue (Alcibiades 116-135)
- 3. Rescuing Alcibiades (Second Alcibiades)
- 4. A Puzzling Retrospective (Symposium 211- 222)
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Acknowledgments