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In the Platonic work Alcibiades I, a divinely guided Socrates adopts the guise of a lover in order to divert Alcibiades from an unthinking political career. The contributors to this carefully focussed volume cover aspects of the background to the work; its arguments and the philosophical issues it raises; its relationship to other Platonic texts, and its subsequent history up to the time of the Neoplatonists. Despite its ancient prominence, the authorship of Alcibiades I is still unsettled; the essays and two appendices, one historical and one stylometric, come together to suggest answers to this tantalising question

Plato. --- Plato --- Plato - Alcibiades I

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The conventional view of Aristophanes bristles with problems. Important testimony for Alcibiades’ paramount role in comedy is consistently disregarded, and the tradition that “masks were made to look like the komodoumenoi, so that before an actor spoke a word, the audience would recognize who was being attacked” is hardly ever invoked. If these testimonia are taken into account, a fascinating picture emerges, where the komodoumenoi are based on the Periclean household: older characters on Pericles himself, younger on Alcibiades. Aspasia, Pericles’ mistress, and Hipparete, Alcibiades’ wife, lie behind many female characters, and Alcibiades’ ambiguous sexuality also allows him to be shown on the stage as a woman, notably as Lysistrata. There is a substantial overlap between the anecdotal tradition relating to the historical figures and the plotting of Aristophanes’ plays. This extends to speech patterns, where Alcibiades’ speech defect is lampooned. Aristophanes is consistently critical of Alcibiades’ mercurial politics, and his works can also be seen to have served as an aide-mémoire for Thucydides and Xenophon. If the argument presented here is correct, then much current scholarship on Aristophanes can be set aside.

Politics in literature. --- Greek drama (Comedy) --- Political science in literature --- History and criticism. --- Alcibiades --- Aristophanes --- Aristofan --- Arystofanes --- Aristophane --- Aristofane --- Arisutopanesu --- Arisutofanesu --- Aristófanes --- Aristophanes Comicus --- אריסטופאנוס --- אריסטופאנס --- אריסטופאנס. כספי זיוה --- אריסטופניס --- אריסטופנס --- Ἀριστοφάνης --- Alkibiades --- Alcibiade --- Alkibiad --- In literature. --- Characters --- Alcibiades. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Politics in literature --- Greek drama (Comedy) - History and criticism --- Alcibiades - In literature --- Aristophanes - Characters - Alcibiades --- Aristophanes - Criticism and interpretation

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Wie die meisten unechten platonischen Schriften ist der Alkibiades II unzureichend erforscht. Die vorliegenden Untersuchungen zum pseudoplatonischen Alkibiades II enthalten umfangreiche Quellenforschungen, durch die die philosophischen Vorstellungen, die dem Werk zugrunde liegen, als die des Antisthenes erwiesen werden. Dabei werden neben den Memorabilien weitere philosophische Schriften des Xenophon und andere pseudoplatonische Dialoge in den Blick genommen, die in einzelnen Abschnitten dieselben Quellen wie der Alkibiades II zu verwenden scheinen. Im Alkibiades II werden einerseits Schriften des 4. Jh. v. Chr. (Platon, Antisthenes) als Quellen verwandt, andererseits wird gegen die Stoa des Zenon von Kition und den Peripatos der damaligen Zeit als zeitgenössische philosophische Konkurrenten polemisiert. Der pseudoplatonische Dialog ordnet sich auf Grund seiner Polemik und seines spezifischen Umgangs mit der philosophischen Protreptik in die Akademie z.Zt. des Polemon ein. Anhand seiner Struktur wird das Werk als ein sokratischer Alkibiades-Dialog verstanden. So ist sein Titel "Alkibiades" erklärbar.

Dialogues, Greek --- Greek dialogues --- Greek literature --- History and criticism. --- Plato. --- Alcibiades --- Alkibiades --- Alcibiade --- Alkibiad --- Platon --- Plato --- Aflāṭūn --- Aplaton --- Bolatu --- Platonas --- Platone --- Po-la-tʻu --- Pʻŭllatʻo --- Pʻŭllatʻon --- Pʻuratʻon --- Πλάτων --- אפלטון --- פלאטא --- פלאטאן --- פלאטו --- أفلاطون --- 柏拉圖 --- 플라톤 --- Платон --- プラトン --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Alcibiades 2. --- Alkiviadēs B' --- Alcibiades two --- Alcibiades II --- Zweite Alkibiades --- Alkibiades II --- Second Alcibiades --- Ἀλκιβιάδης δεύτερος --- Alkibiadēs deuteros --- Περὶ προσευχῆς --- Peri proseuchēs --- Academy at the Time of Polemon. --- Antisthenes. --- Prayer. --- Pseudo-Plato Alkibiades II. --- Socratic Alkibiades Dialogue.

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Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of the Golden Age of Athens. A ward of Pericles and a friend of Socrates, he was spectacularly rich, bewitchingly handsome and charismatic, a skilled general, and a ruthless politician. He was also a serial traitor, infamous for his dizzying changes of loyalty in the Peloponnesian War. Nemesis tells the story of this extraordinary life and the turbulent world that Alcibiades set out to conquer. David Stuttard recreates ancient Athens at the height of its glory as he follows Alcibiades from childhood to political power. Outraged by Alcibiades's celebrity lifestyle, his enemies sought every chance to undermine him. Eventually, facing a capital charge of impiety, Alcibiades escaped to the enemy, Sparta. There he traded military intelligence for safety until, suspected of seducing a Spartan queen, he was forced to flee again--this time to Greece's long-term foes, the Persians. Miraculously, though, he engineered a recall to Athens as Supreme Commander, but--suffering a reversal--he took flight to Thrace, where he lived as a warlord. At last in Anatolia, tracked by his enemies, he died naked and alone in a hail of arrows. As he follows Alcibiades's journeys crisscrossing the Mediterranean from mainland Greece to Syracuse, Sardis, and Byzantium, Stuttard weaves together the threads of Alcibiades's adventures against a backdrop of cultural splendor and international chaos. Navigating often contradictory evidence, Nemesis provides a coherent and spellbinding account of a life that has gripped historians, storytellers, and artists for more than 2,000 years.--

Ancient Greece. --- Aristophanes. --- Athenians. --- Chithrafarna. --- Farnavaz II. --- Ionia. --- Nicias. --- Peloponnesian War. --- Pericles. --- Persia. --- Persians. --- Plato. --- Samos. --- Sicily. --- Sparta. --- Spartans. --- Syracuse. --- Thrace. --- Thracians. --- Alcibiades. --- Greece --- History

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This is a major retrospective consisting of newly-commissioned essays by an impressive line-up of literary critics devoted to assessing the career and subsequent standing of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, published at the bicentenary of his birth.

Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, --- Alcibiades, --- Tennyson, --- טניסון, אלפרד, --- טענעסאן, א., --- טעניסאן, אלפרעד, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Tennyson, Alfred --- Alfred --- English literature --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers)