Socrates and Alcibiades: Plato's Drama of Political Ambition and Philosophy 0812249135, 9780812249132, 9780812293982, 0812293983

In the classical world, political ambition posed an intractable problem. Ancient Greek democracies fostered in their mos

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Socrates and Alcibiades: Plato's Drama of Political Ambition and Philosophy
0812249135, 9780812249132, 9780812293982, 0812293983

In Socrates and Alcibiades, Ariel Helfer provides a new interpretation of Plato's account of the relationship betwe

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One of the central challenges to contemporary political philosophy is the apparent impossibility of arriving at any comm

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This biography of Alcibiades, the charismatic Athenian statesman and general (c. 450–404 BC) who achieved both renown an

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"A translation of a biography of the Athenian general Alcibiades by Jacqueline de Romilly, a French scholar and mem

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A gifted demagogue and, according to his contemporaries, more handsome than the hero Achilles, Alcibiades is a strikingl

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This book is a fresh examination of Thucydides' treatment of Alcibiades in his History of the Peloponnesian War, Al

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An comprehensive overwiew on Socrates' philosophy

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Plato's Parmenides is regarded as a canonical work in ontology. Depicting a conversation between Parmenides of Elea

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