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Second Alcibiades: The Dialogues of Plato

The Second Alcibiades is a dialogue traditionally ascribed to Plato that depicts Socrates attempting to persuade Alcibiades not to pray to the gods without knowing if his prayers are good or bad. There is scholarly dispute over its authenticity, as its arguments are defective and it lacks Plato's usual style. If not authentic, it likely dates to the 3rd-2nd centuries BCE.

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Second Alcibiades: The Dialogues of Plato

The Second Alcibiades is a dialogue traditionally ascribed to Plato that depicts Socrates attempting to persuade Alcibiades not to pray to the gods without knowing if his prayers are good or bad. There is scholarly dispute over its authenticity, as its arguments are defective and it lacks Plato's usual style. If not authentic, it likely dates to the 3rd-2nd centuries BCE.

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Second Alcibiades
Part of the series on:
The dialogues of Plato
Early dialogues:
Apology Charmides Crito
Euthyphro First Alcibiades
Hippias Major Hippias Minor
Ion Laches Lysis
Transitional and middle dialogues:
Cratylus Euthydemus Gorgias
Menexenus Meno Phaedo
Protagoras Symposium
Later middle dialogues:
Republic Phaedrus
Parmenides Theaetetus
Late dialogues:
Clitophon Timaeus Critias
Sophist Statesman
Philebus Laws
Of doubtful authenticity:
Axiochus Definitions - Demodocus
Epinomis Epistles Eryxias
Halcyon Hipparchus Minos
On Justice On Virtue
Rival Lovers Second Alcibiades
Sisyphus Theages
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[1]
The Second Alcibiades or Alcibiades II (Greek: ) is a dialogue traditionally ascribed to Plato. In it,
Socrates attempts to persuade Alcibiades that it is unsafe for him to pray to the gods if he does not know whether
what he prays for is actually good or bad for him.
There is dispute amongst scholars about the text's authenticity, and it is generally considered apocryphal.
[2]
The main
criticisms of its authenticity revolve around its defective arguments, lack of humor, and style; those who consider it
Second Alcibiades
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inauthentic date its composition to the 3rd or 2nd centuries BCE.
[3]
References
[1] http:/ / en. wikipedia. org/ w/ index. php?title=Template:Dialogues_of_Plato& action=edit
[2] Plato, Complete Works, ed. John M. Cooper (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1997), v, 596608.
[3] W. R. M. Lamb, Introduction to Alcibiades II, in Plato, vol. 12, Charmides Alcibiades Hipparchus The Lovers Theages Minos Epinomis, ed.
Lamb, L201 in the Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1927), 226.
External links
Works related to Alcibiades II at Wikisource
Second Alcibiades (http:/ / www. gutenberg. org/ etext/ 1677), translated by Benjamin Jowett
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