Tarrant Harold.Johnson Marguerite - Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator

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Harold Tarrant and Marguerite Johnson

Marguerite Johnson

Dougal Blyth

Victoria Wohl

Reuben Ramsey

Yuji Kurihara

Joe Mintoff

Anthony Hooper

Eugenio Benitez

Matthew Sharpe

Harold Tarrant

Fergus J. King

Akitsugu Taki

Franois Renaud

Neil Morpeth

Elizabeth Baynham and Harold Tarrant

Harold Tarrant and Terry Roberts

Dr Elizabeth Baynham is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History in the School of Humanities, University of Newcastle, Australia. She is the author of Alexander the Great, The Unique History of Quintus Curtius (Ann Arbor, 1998) and co-editor (with A.B. Bosworth) of Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction (Oxford, 2000). Her interests include Greco-Roman historiography and Greek history, especially the era of Alexander and the Diadochoi.

Eugenio Benitez is Associate Professor in Philosophy and Classics at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Forms in Platos Philebus (1989), and editor of volumes on Platonic myths and Platos aesthetics. In recent years he has been primarily concerned with questions associated with the interpretation of Platos dialogues.

Dougal Blyth is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has published articles and contributed chapters on Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Aristophanes and Menander, and was a co-editor of Power and Pleasure, Virtues and Vices (Prudentia Supplement, Auckland 2001).

Anthony Hooper was an MPhil candidate at the University of Sydney at the time of writing this paper, and is now a PhD candidate at the same institution, writing his dissertation on immortality in the Presocratics and Plato. He has published articles on myth in Plato in The European Legacy, and on Aristophanes speech in Platos Symposium in The Classical Quarterly.

Marguerite Johnson is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She specialises in Greek and Latin literature, especially the works of Sappho and Catullus. She is the author of Sappho (Duckworth, 2007) and co-author of Sexuality in Greek and Roman Literature and Society: A Sourcebook (Routledge, 2005). One of her current research interests is myth and fairytale in the ancient world, with particular focus on storytelling in Plato.

Fergus J. King has degrees from St Andrews, Edinburgh, and the University of South Africa. He is Rector of the Parish of the Good Shepherd in the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle and Conjoint Lecturer in Theology at the University of Newcastle, and his current research includes the potential dialogue between Epicureanism and the Fourth Gospel. He is the author of More Than a Passover: Inculturation in the Supper Narratives of the New Testament (Peter Lang, 2007), and several articles on New Testament and missiological themes.

Yuji Kurihara received his doctorate in Ancient Philosophy from the University of California, Irvine, and is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Ethics at Tokyo Gakugei University. He has published numerous articles on Platos epistemology and ethics in Japanese and English.

Joe Mintoff is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His primary research interests are in moral philosophy, specifically the theory of rational choice, the philosophy of Socrates, and ancient approaches to the question of how to live. His articles have appeared in Australasian Journal of Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly, Ethics, and Ratio.

Neil Morpeth is Associate Professor at the University of Newcastle (English Language and Foundation Studies Centre), where he lectures in classical studies and traditions of thought. His published work reflects his wide interests in traditions of thought and their transmission across the ages, and includes ThucydidesWar: Accounting for the Faces of Conflict (Georg Olms Verlag 2006).

Reuben Ramsey is a PhD candidate at the University of Newcastle, after completing an Honours thesis on Alcibiades. He is currently engaged in an analysis of the vocabulary of three plays by Aeschylus and Prometheus Bound, with particular reference to the potential dramatic force of repetition in these plays.

Franois Renaud is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Universit de Moncton, Canada. Trained in both Classics and Philosophy, he has published mostly on Plato, his interpretation, and his Socratic legacy. His publications include Die Resokratisierung Platons. Die platonische Hermeneutik Hans-Georg Gadamers (Sankt Augustin 1999), and he has coedited volumes on philosophic commentaries over the ages and Gadamers response to Platos Philebus. His current projects include a monograph on Platos Gorgias, a co-authored book on Alcibiades I, and publications on Ciceros Platonism.

Matthew Sharpe teaches philosophy and psychoanalytic studies at Deakin University. He is the author of several publications addressing modern perspectives on classical philosophy, as well as work on contemporary philosophy.

Akitsugu Taki has degrees from Durham University and the University of Tokyo, and is Associate Professor in Ethics and Vice Dean in the Department of Environmental and Social Studies, Josai International University (Chiba, Japan). He has published philological papers on Plato, most recently on a scribes replacement of Proclus lemma in his commentary on the Alcibiades.

Harold Tarrant is Professor of Classics at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is the author or co-editor of several books on the Platonic tradition in antiquity, including Platos First Interpreters (2000), Recollecting Platos Meno (2005), and (with Dirk Baltzly) Interpreting Plato in Antiquity (2006), all from Duckworth. He has more recently been involved in the production of a new English translation of Proclus Commentary on the Timaeus.

Victoria Wohl is Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the literature and culture of classical Athens, spanning a variety of genres, poetic and prosaic. She is the author of Intimate Commerce: Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy (Texas, 1998), Love Among the Ruins: The Erotics of Democracy in Classical Athens (Princeton, 2003), and Laws Cosmos: Juridical Discourse in Athenian Forensic Oratory