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Auteur(s) : Helfer, Ariel
Titre(s) : Socrates and Alcibiades [Texte imprimé] : Plato's drama of political ambition and philosophy / Ariel Helfer
Publication : Philadelphia (Pa.) : University of Pennsylvania press, cop. 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (219 p.) ; 24 cm
Comprend : Socrates' promise and Alcibiades' failure (Alcibiades 103-116) ; The exaltation
of virtue (Alcibiades 116-135) ; Rescuing Alcibiades (Second Alcibiades) ; A puzzling
retrospective (Symposium 211-222).
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 213-216. Index
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 much as active civic engagement was considered
among the highest goods by the Greek nobility, the attempt to harness the love of
glory to the good of the city inevitably produced notoriously ambitious figures whose
zeal for political power and prestige was so great that it outstripped their intention
to win honor through praiseworthy deeds. No figure better exemplifies the risks and
rewards of ancient political ambition than Alcibiades, an intelligent, charming, and
attractive statesman who grew up during the Golden Age of Athens and went on to become
an infamous demagogue and traitor to the city during the Peloponnesian War. Ariel
Helfer gathers Plato's three major presentations of Alcibiades: the Alcibiades, the
Second Alcibiades, and the Symposium. Counter to conventional interpretation, Helfer
reads these texts as presenting a coherent narrative, spanning nearly two decades,
of the relationship between Socrates and his most notorious pupil
Sujet(s) : Socrate (0469?-0399? av. J.-C.) -- Philosophie politique
Platon (0427?-0348? av. J.-C.). Alcibiade
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780812249132. - ISBN 0812249135 (rel.) (papier neutre)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb452080411
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