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grbs-1391	Shiffman, Mark	Erotic Wisdom and the Socratic Vocation in Plutarch’s Platonic Question 1	2010	29	.pdf	application/pdf	11065	357	48	Two of these works are dialogues in which characters other than Plutarch invoke recollection tangentially to some other point they are making.29 In The Dialogue on Love, Plutarch as character, in his speech in praise of the god Eros, recasts material from Socrates’ Palinode in the Phaedrus to describe the experience of love—especially its power to “conduct the soul to the Plain of Truth” (765A) and to lead us to discover in the 28 T 244 EROTIC WISDOM AND THE SOCRATIC VOCATION ————— Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 50 (2010) 243–271 tradition in that he “attached great value to the zetetic and aporetic approach” of the Academics, nevertheless sets out to examine Plutarch’s meditation on Socrates in Platonic Question 1 in order to “study the way in which Plutarch incorporated Aca- demic themes in his brand of Platonism.	cache/grbs-1391.pdf	txt/grbs-1391.txt