Alcibiades I

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Alcibiades I, by (may be spurious) Plato This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Alcibiades I Author: (may be spurious) Plato Translator: Benjamin Jowett Release Date: September 21, 2008 [EBook #1676] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALCIBIADES I *** Produced by Sue Asscher, and David Widger ALCIBIADES I by Plato (see Appendix I) Translated by Benjamin Jowett APPENDIX I. It seems impossible to separate by any exact line the genuine writings of Plato from the spurious. The only external evidence to them which is of much value is that of Aristotle; for the Alexandrian catalogues of a century later include manifest forgeries. Even the value of the Aristotelian authority is a good deal impaired by the uncertainty concerning the date and authorship of the writings which are ascribed to him. And several of the citations of Aristotle omit the name of Plato, and some of them omit the name of the dialogue from which they are taken.