Socrates and Alcibiades : Plato's drama of political ambition and philosophy /
In the classical world, political ambition posed an intractable problem. Ancient Greek democracies fostered in their most promising youths a tension-ridden combination of the desire for personal glory and deep-seated public-spiritedness in hopes of producing brilliant and capable statesmen. But as m...
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Bibliographic Details
| Main Author: |
Helfer, Ariel
(Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut) |
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| Format: | Book
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| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2017]
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :
[2017]
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