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Title: | Plato’s Symposium and Plutarch’s Alcibiades | Authors: | Duff, Timothy E. | Issue Date: | 2009 | Publisher: | Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Clássicos e Humanísticos |
Journal: | http://hdl.handle.net/10316.2/2353 | Abstract: | This paper examines Plutarch’s exploitation of Plato’s Symposium in chs. 4-7 of the Life of Alcibiades. It aims to demonstrate that the Symposium is much more than a “source” for the Alcibiades. Rather the Alcibiades invites an intertextual reading with the Symposium, and becomes more meaningful when read with the Symposium in mind. In particular, knowledge of the Symposium reveals how Plutarch has constructed Socrates’ attitude to and relationship with Alcibiades as that of the ideal lover with his beloved. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316.2/31976 | ISBN: | 978-989-26-0908-9 (PDF) | DOI: | 10.14195/978-989-8281-17-3_4 | Rights: | open access |
Appears in Collections: | Symposion and philanthropia in Plutarch |
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