| According to a fragment of [[Aristotle]], the first author of Socratic dialogue was [[Alexamenes]] of [[Teos]], but we do not know anything else about him, whether [[Socrates]] appeared in his works, or how accurate Aristotle was in his unfavorable judgement about him. In addition to [[Plato]] and [[Xenophon]], [[Antisthenes]], [[Aeschines]] of [[Sphettos]], [[Phaedo]], [[Eucleides]] of Megara, [[Theocritus]], [[Tissaphernes]] and [[Aristotle]] all wrote Socratic dialogues, and [[Cicero]] wrote similar dialogues in [[Latin]] on philosophical and [[rhetorical]] themes, for example De re publica.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_dialogue] | | According to a fragment of [[Aristotle]], the first author of Socratic dialogue was [[Alexamenes]] of [[Teos]], but we do not know anything else about him, whether [[Socrates]] appeared in his works, or how accurate Aristotle was in his unfavorable judgement about him. In addition to [[Plato]] and [[Xenophon]], [[Antisthenes]], [[Aeschines]] of [[Sphettos]], [[Phaedo]], [[Eucleides]] of Megara, [[Theocritus]], [[Tissaphernes]] and [[Aristotle]] all wrote Socratic dialogues, and [[Cicero]] wrote similar dialogues in [[Latin]] on philosophical and [[rhetorical]] themes, for example De re publica.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_dialogue] |