Il discorso di Alcibiade tra elogio e autoritratto (Platone, Symp. 212C4-223A9)

NIEDDU, GIAN FRANCO FILIPPO

2015-01-01

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Abstract

The focus of attention is not represented, as usually, by the function and significance of the speech of Alcibiades within the philosophical and conceptual project of Plato, but by the portrait of his character Plato gives us. Being a highly enthralling tribute to the greatness of the master, his eccentric and paradoxical performance appears as the reflection of a personal and almost idiosyncratic perspective, typical of a self-centered, transgressive and overflowing personality, inclined in words and gestures to amplification and hyperbole