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Alcibiades I
Plato · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordThe later battle-site at which Alcibiades’ father died, according to Socrates.
- In Alcibiades ICoronea follows Tanagra in the sequence from familiar poetic conflicts to a family loss.
- In this editionBurnet brackets the repeated father’s name Κλεινίας; the English does not translate it.
- A place to readCoronea is named as later than Tanagra and the place of the father’s death.
Meaning
The later battle-site at which Alcibiades’ father died, according to Socrates.
Use in the book
Coronea follows Tanagra in the sequence from familiar poetic conflicts to a family loss. Socrates says that disagreement over justice caused these deaths and battles too. Alcibiades agrees, allowing his father’s fate to be included in the criticism of the many as teachers of justice. This gives the methodological argument emotional pressure without pausing for a lament: the young man’s confident appeal to ordinary opinion must confront the cost of disagreement among the very people he would cite as authorities. The passage does not say that his father’s death establishes which party was just.
Places to read
- 112cCoronea is named as later than Tanagra and the place of the father’s death.
Translation in this edition
Burnet brackets the repeated father’s name Κλεινίας; the English does not translate it. The edition’s note offers the external date 447 or 446 BC, while the dialogue itself supplies only the relative sequence.
Κορώνεια
Attested: Κορωνείᾳ (korōneiai; 112c). Coronea, the later battle where Alcibiades’ father died. Lexical identification: lemma: Κορώνεια. See Coronea.
Source note
The supplied edition, notes 1 and 20, places Cleinias’ death at Coronea in 447 or 446 BC. The alternative dates are preserved rather than silently resolved.