Traditional attribution
Alcibiades I
Ἀλκιβιάδης α
Socrates approaches the young Alcibiades, about to enter Athenian politics, and shows him that he does not know what is just or advantageous. To govern others one must first care for oneself, and the self is the soul; the soul knows itself by looking into another soul, as the eye sees itself in the pupil of another eye. It is the great ancient reading of 'know thyself'.
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Authorship note
Disputed. Antiquity held it genuine and the Neoplatonists placed it at the start of the course of study; since Schleiermacher (1809) many critics have considered it the work of a pupil in the Academy. The question remains open today, and part of current scholarship again defends its authenticity.
Editions and translations
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English
Plato on Love
Hackett, 2006
Translation: ed. C. D. C. Reeve
ISBN 9780872207882
Plato: Complete Works
Hackett, 1997
Translation: varios (ed. John M. Cooper y D. S. Hutchinson)
ISBN 0872203492
Volumen único con todo el corpus, incluidos dudosos, espurios y epigramas
Plato
Alcibiades I
The Conscious LibraryAlcibiades I
Clarendon Press (Oxford), 1892
Translation: Benjamin Jowett
The Dialogues of Plato, 3.ª ed., apéndice I (Jowett lo publica advirtiendo que puede ser espurio); dominio público
Español
Plato
El primer Alcibiades o de la naturaleza humana
The Conscious LibraryEl primer Alcibiades o de la naturaleza humana
Medina y Navarro (Madrid), 1871
Translation: Patricio de Azcárate
Obras completas de Platón, tomo 1; traducción de dominio público
Plato
Diálogos VII: Dudosos, apócrifos, cartas
The Conscious LibraryDiálogos VII: Dudosos, apócrifos, cartas
Gredos, 1992
ISBN 9788424914783
Biblioteca Clásica Gredos 162; trad. de Juan Zaragoza (dudosos y cartas) y Pilar Gómez Cardó (apócrifos)
Other works by Plato
- Euthyphro · 395
- Apology of Socrates · 395
- Crito · 395
- Phaedo · 380
- Cratylus · 385
- Theaetetus · 368
- Sophist · 360
- Statesman · 360
- Parmenides · 370
- Philebus · 355
- Symposium · 380
- Phaedrus · 370
- Alcibiades II
- Hipparchus
- Rival Lovers (Lovers)
- Theages
- Charmides · 390
- Laches · 390
- Lysis · 390
- Euthydemus · 385
- Protagoras · 390
- Gorgias · 387
- Meno · 385
- Hippias Major · 390
- Hippias Minor · 395
- Ion · 395
- Menexenus · 386
- Clitophon
- Republic · 375
- Timaeus · 360
- Critias · 360
- Minos
- Laws · 350
- Epinomis · 345
- Letter I (to Dionysius II)
- Letter II (to Dionysius II)
- Letter III (to Dionysius II)
- Letter IV (to Dion) · 357
- Letter V (to Perdiccas III of Macedon)
- Letter VI (to Hermias, Erastus and Coriscus)
- Letter VII (to the relatives and friends of Dion) · 353
- Letter VIII (to the relatives and friends of Dion) · 353
- Letter IX (to Archytas of Tarentum)
- Letter X (to Aristodorus)
- Letter XI (to Laodamas)
- Letter XII (to Archytas of Tarentum)
- Letter XIII (to Dionysius II)
- Definitions
- On Justice
- On Virtue
- Demodocus
- Sisyphus
- Halcyon
- Eryxias
- Axiochus
- Epigrams
Sources
- Cooper, John M. (ed.) y Hutchinson, D. S. (ed. asociado), Plato: Complete Works, Indianápolis, Hackett, 1997 (introducción del editor sobre el corpus, las tetralogías de Trasilo y la autenticidad de cada obra).
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