Traditional attribution
Alcibiades II
Ἀλκιβιάδης β
Alcibiades is going to pray to the gods and Socrates warns him of the danger of asking for what is not good for him: without knowing what is best, a prayer may bring misfortune, as shown by those who prayed for power or children. He concludes that one must wait to learn how to behave towards gods and men. A short dialogue on prayer and ignorance.
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Authorship note
Spurious according to most scholars: Athenaeus (XI 506c) already reports that some ascribed it to Xenophon; its language and doctrine date it after Plato, probably to the third century BC.
Editions and translations
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English
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 II
The Conscious LibraryAlcibiades II
Clarendon Press (Oxford), 1892
Translation: Mr. Knight, secretario de Jowett
The Dialogues of Plato, 3.ª ed., apéndice II; dominio público
Plato
Second Alcibiades
The Conscious LibrarySecond Alcibiades
Henry G. Bohn (Londres), 1855
Translation: George Burges
The Works of Plato, Bohn's Classical Library, vol. 4; traducción de dominio público
Español
Plato
El segundo Alcibíades o de la oración
The Conscious LibraryEl segundo Alcibíades o de la oración
Medina y Navarro (Madrid), 1872
Translation: Patricio de Azcárate
Obras completas de Platón, tomo 11; 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 I
- 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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