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The Platonic Alcibiades IThe Dialogue and its Ancient ReceptionAUTHORS: François Renaud, Université de Moncton, Canada, Harold Tarrant, University of Newcastle, New South Wales&#160;ISBN: 9780521199124&#160;&#160;CONTENTS AcknowledgementsSelected abbreviations PART I THE DIALOGUE Introduction 1 Uncertain status of the Alcibiades today2 Privileged status of the dialogue in Antiquity3 Defence of the general approach4 General arguments in favour of an ancient approach5 Hermeneutic issues: the dialogue and the corpus6 The subject of the Alcibiades7 Drama 1 The Alcibiades I and its issues 1 Opening (103a–106a): the beauty and the beast2 Exposing double ignorance (106b–119a)3 The protreptic passage (119a–124a)4 Taking care of our self (124b–129b)5 The mirror-motif and self-knowledge (129b–133c)6 Putting self-knowledge to use (133c–135e)7 Summary of the dialogue  PART II RECEPTION IN ANTIQUITY 2 Prereception and early reception 1 Lost clues regarding interpretation2 Xenophon and Alcibiades3 Aristotle4 The Magna Moralia and the intertextual mirror5 The Alcibiades II6 The Academy under Polemo7 The problem of Cicero8 The Platonic revival and the Middle Platonists9 Plutarch of Chaeroneia10 Albinus, Alcinous and others 3 Neoplatonist reception to Proclus 1 ‘Neoplatonism’2 Plotinus3 Porphyry4 Iamblichus5 Syrianus and Hermias6 Proclus7 Damascius8 The Christian Alcibiades 4 Olympiodorus 1 Introduction: general hermeneutic principles2 The character of Olympiodorus’ teaching3 Socrates as model4 Socrates’ divine sign and his approach to Alcibiades5 The Socratic art of love6 Socratic dialectic7 The ignorance of Alcibiades8 The political dimension9 Self-care10 The self and the soul11 The language of the self12 Olympiodorus on the inner self13 Olympiodorus’ text14 Conclusion PART III THE DIALOGUE REVISITED 5 Reflections on our ancient journey 1 Ancient lessons for the modern interpreter2 Ancient texts and modern3 Authorship and possible ancient contexts4 Coda: towards a philosophy of self BibliographyIndex locorumGeneral index