Plato’s Severed Lovers: Alkibiades and Sokrates

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Plato’s Severed Lovers: Alkibiades and Sokrates

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The Symposium’s tale of Alkibiades and Sokrates and its historical implications—of war and philosophy, of a shattered imperial democracy and a god-like leader driven out for supposed impiety and assassinated in exile, as well as a trial and execution of a philosopher for impiety and dissent—is dramatic in its own right. But its large and continuing public significance is only understandable in the context of some unexpected debates about Plato … For rehearsing modest changes on repeated themes, Plato scholarship often resembles the long patriarchy of curation about Athena.

– From the Introduction
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