Authenticity of the Alcibiades I: Some Reflections

• Authors: Jirsa Jakub
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This text maps the history of debate on the authenticity of Plato's or pseudo-Plato's Alcibiades I. The first doubts were raised by Friedrich Schleiermacher at the beginning of nineteenth century and the debate became vigorous again after Denyeris and Pradeau-Marboeufis attempts to argue for Plato's authorship couple of years ago. The author discusses several particular points raised against the authenticity (lexical, literary, stylistic and philosophical problems) and he will show that none of them stands on its own. Further, when taken together these points do not prove the dialogue to be a bogus work. The debate, he concludes, is open; however the tendency in the last decade is in favour of Plato's authorship rather than against it.

Keywords

EN

ALCIBIADES I; AUTHORSHIP; PLATO; STYLE; STYLOMETRY

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Listy filologické (Folia philologica)
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 132
• Issue: 3-4
• Pages: 225-244
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jirsa Jakub

• Jakub Jirsa, Ustav filosofie a religionistiky FF UK, Nam. J. Palacha 2, Praha 1 116 42, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09CZAAAA07058