What Alcibiades “Did and Suffered” in Aristotle’s Poetics, Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War, and Plato’s Symposium
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This paper examines the way that two classical Greek philosophical texts, Plato’s Symposium and Aristotle’s Poetics, utilize the historical figure of Alcibiades—known best from a third Greek classic, Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War—as an exemplar in discussions of philosophy. Although most readers of Plato and Aristotle regard the choice as neutral (it could just as easily have been anyone else), I argue that selecting this figure should be seen as a moment of characterization, and moreover, one that challenges the generic distinctions between history and philosophy. Historical facts (Alcibiades’ real-life involvement with the historical figure of Socrates, his notorious political problems in Athens during the civil war with Sparta, etc.) are dramatized in Plato’s work of fiction in order to comment on the limits of history and the failures of philosophy.
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This paper examines the way that two classical Greek philosophical texts, Plato’s Symposium and Aristotle’s Poetics, utilize the historical figure of Alcibiades—known best from a third Greek classic, Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War—as an exemplar in discussions of philosophy. Although most readers of Plato and Aristotle regard the choice as neutral (it could just as easily have been anyone else), I argue that selecting this figure should be seen as a moment of characterization, and moreover, one that challenges the generic distinctions between history and philosophy. Historical facts (Alcibiades’ real-life involvement with the historical figure of Socrates, his notorious political problems in Athens during the civil war with Sparta, etc.) are dramatized in Plato’s work of fiction in order to comment on the limits of history and the failures of philosophy.
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