Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10316.2/31976
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
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