Alcibiades I: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Alcibiades I, credited to Plato, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Alcibiades I, by Plato. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. Read by Kevin Johnson. As Jowett relates in his brilliant introduction, 95% of Plato's writing is certain and his reputation rests soundly on this foundation. The Alcibiades 1 appears to be a short work by Plato with only two characters: Socrates and Alcibiades. This dialogue has little dramatic verisimilitude but centres on the question of what knowledge one needs for political life. Like the early dialogues, the question is on whether the virtues needed by a statesman can be taught, on the importance of self-knowledge as a starting point for any leader. While this may be only partially the work of Plato, or even not his at all, Jowett favoured the work with his magisterial translation and appears to favour its inclusion in the canon of true works. (Summary by Kevin Johnson)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Alcibiades I
• Author credits: Plato
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 4
• Listed recording duration: 2:15:44

Catalogue topics

• classics: Plato
• Alcibiades
• philosophy
• doubtful authenticity
• Jowett translation
• short dialogue

Track guide

1. 1 - Part I — 27:48
2. 2 - Part II — 37:50
3. 3 - Part III — 43:11
4. 4 - Part IV — 26:55

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