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Alcibiades's Epiphanic Experience in Plato's Symposium

Illinois Classical Studies, 2022
:In Plato's Symposium, Alcibiades resorts to the imagery of art and describes the Socratic virtues in terms of "divine statues." In this paper, I argue that Plato makes Alcibiades use the poetics of divine salvific and erotic epiphany in order to ...
Zacharoula A. Petraki
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Xenophon, the Old Oligarch, and Alcibiades

POLIS, 2022
Modifying the conjecture of Wolfgang Helbig (1861) by means of the distinction between Xenophon and his various narrators introduced by Benjamin McCloskey (2017), this paper uses the insights of Hartvig Frisch (1942) to show how drawing a distinction ...
W. Altman
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Why did Plato choose Alcibiades to praise Socrates in the Symposium?

Ancient Philosophy, 2022
The contrast between the content of Alcibiades’ speech and the character delivering it is a well-known interpretative difficulty of the last speech of Plato’s Symposium, for Alcibiades reveals important truths about Socrates and his philosophical ...
A. Bonnemaison
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Alcibiade

, 2019
André Suarès
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Alcibiades and the Irrational

Scripta Classica Israelica, 2020
A riposte to an adverse review of Vickers' Sophocles and Alcibiades (2008). Sophocles well expresses the irrational nature of the teenage Antigone and the crazy Ajax in the relevant plays.
M. Vickers
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Platonic allusion in Plutarch’s Alcibiades 4–7

Ratio et res ipsa, 2020
Plutarch deals with Socrates' relationship with Alcibiades in chs. 4-7 of his Life. He draws heavily here on two Platonic works, the First Alcibiades and the Symposium, but engagement with the Platonic texts is denser and more profound in Alcibiades than
T. Duff
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Self-Knowledge in the Eye-Soul Analogy of the Alcibiades

Phronesis, 2019
The kind of self-knowledge at issue in the eye-soul analogy of the Alcibiades (132d5-133c7) is knowledge of one’s epistemic state, i.e. what one knows and does not know, rather than knowledge of what one is. My evidence for this is the connection between
D. Ferguson
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The Androgyny of Wonder: A Reading of Plato’s First Alcibiades

Classical Philology
This reading of Plato’s First Alcibiades argues that wonder serves as the means through which we can comprehend Alcibiades’ gender indeterminacy and the philosophical and political implications of that indeterminacy.
Noushin Ahdoot
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Neoplatonic Providence and Descent: a Test-Case from Proclus’ Alcibiades Commentary

The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition, 2019
This article deals with the complex relation between providence and descent in Neoplatonism, with particular reference to Proclus and especially his Commentary on the First Alcibiades.
D. Vasilakis
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Neoplatonic Pedagogy and the Alcibiades I

Many philosophers in the ancient world shared a unitary vision of philosophy – meaning 'love of wisdom' – not just as a theoretical discipline, but as a way of life.
James M. Ambury
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