{"product_id":"alcibiades-i-ii-9781595404442","title":"Alcibiades I \u0026 II","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Plato | 1st World Library | 1stworld Library\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: 1st World Library - Literary Society\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Surveys - Ancient \u0026amp; Classical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePurchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The First Alcibiades is a conversation between Socrates and Alcibiades. Socrates is represented in the character which he attributes to himself in the Apology of a know-nothing who detects the conceit of knowledge in others. The two have met already in the Protagoras and in the Symposium; in the latter dialogue, as in this, the relation between them is that of a lover and his beloved. But the narrative of their loves is told differently in different places; for in the Symposium Alcibiades is depicted as the impassioned but rejected lover; here, as coldly receiving the advances of Socrates, who, for the best of purposes, lies in wait for the aspiring and ambitious youth. Alcibiades, who is described as a very young man, is about to enter on public life, having an inordinate opinion of himself, and an extravagant ambition. Socrates, 'who knows what is in man, ' astonishes him by a revelation of his designs\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"1st World Library - Literary Society","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47588070195351,"sku":"9781595404442","price":873.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781595404442.webp?v=1774967406","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/alcibiades-i-ii-9781595404442","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}