Socrates' Daimonic Art

Despite increasing interest in the figure of Socrates and in love in ancient Greece, no recent monograph studies these topics in all four of Plato''s dialogues on love and friendship. This book provides important new insights into these subjects by examining Plato''s characterization of Socrates in Symposium, Phaedrus, Lysis and the often neglected Alcibiades I. It focuses on the specific ways in ...