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Both ''Alcibiades'' dialogues feature Alcibiades in conversation with Socrates . The dialogues of Alcibiades are very much under-appreciated in our day and age, though they level up with Phaedrus and the Symposium as the three dialogues concerning love. FIRST ALCIBIADES The ''First Alcibiades'' or ''Alcibiades I'' is a dialogue ascribed to Plato , but his authorship is doubtful, though probably written by someone within a century or two of Plato's other works. In the ''First Alcibiades'', Socrates declares his immense love for Alcibiades in a short preface, then continues, for the rest of the dialogue, conversing over the many vital reasons Alcibiades needs him. Though ultimately Socrates' attempts to woo Alcibiades away from politics and towards the philosophical life fail, by the end of ''Alcibiades I'', the Athens youth is very much seduced by Socrates' reasoning. In antiquity ''Alcibiades I'' was regarded as the best text to introduce one to Platonic philosophy, which is probably why it has (since antiquity) been included in the Platonic corpus. SECOND ALCIBIADES Also the ''Second Alcibiades'' or ''Alcibiades II'' is ascribed to Plato, but here there is even more consensus amongst scholars that this text is spurious, though again probably written by someone within a century or two of Plato's other works. EXTERNAL LINKS
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