title: Plato: Alcibiades (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
author: Nicholas Plato
description: "This text will be essential for all students of Plato..." Religious Studies Review<br /><br />"The Alcibiades is rich in Platonic argument and character portrayal, and its relatively simple structure makes it attractive for its traditional use as an introduction to Plato. Further, the editor and Cambridge University Press have produced an attractive and handy book, reminiscent of Burnet's Phaedo in size and format, though with smaller type. Whether or not the Alcibiades is returned to the place it held in the canon for more than two millennia, this volume will be a convenient resource at many levels." Journal of the History of Philosophy
zlib_text: ALCIBIADES II
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  ALCIBIADES II
  Platonic Imitator
  Translated by Benjamin Jowett
  
  ALCIBIADES II
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  APPENDIX II.
  The two dialogues which are translated in the second appendix are not
  mentioned by Aristotle, or by any early authority, and have no claim to be
  ascribed to Plato. They are examples of Platonic dialogues to be assigned
  probably to the second or third generation after Plato, when his writings
  were well known at Athens and Alexandria. They exhibit considerable
  originality, and are remarkable for containing several thoughts of the sort
  which we suppose to be modern rather than ancient, and which therefore
  have a peculiar interest for us. The Second Alcibiades shows that the
  difficulties about prayer which have perplexed Christian theologians were
  not unknown among the followers of Plato. The Eryxias was doubted by
  the ancients themselves: yet it may claim the distinction of being, among
  all Greek or Roman writings, the one which anticipates in the most
  striking manner the modern sci