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Most accurately, the term refers to works in which [|Socrates] is a character, though as a genre other texts are included; [|Plato's //Laws//] and [|Xenophon's //Hiero//] are Socratic dialogues in which a wise man other than Socrates leads the discussion (the Athenian Stranger and [|Simonides], respectively). Likewise, the stylistic format of the dialogues can vary; Plato's dialogues generally only contain the direct words of each of the speakers, while Xenophon's dialogues are written down as a continuous story, containing, along with the narration of the circumstances of the dialogue, the "quotes" of the speakers. According to a fragment of [|Aristotle], the first author of Socratic dialogue was [|Alexamenus of Teos], but we do not know anything else about him, whether Socrates appeared in his works, or how accurate Aristotle was in his antagonistic judgement about him. In addition to Plato and Xenophon, [|Antisthenes], [|Aeschines of Sphettos], [|Phaedo of Elis], [|Euclid of Megara], [|Simon the Shoemaker], [|Theocritus], Tissaphernes and Aristotle all wrote Socratic dialogues, and [|Cicero] wrote similar dialogues in Latin on philosophical and rhetorical themes, for example 
 * Socratic dialogue** is a genre of prose literary works developed in [|Greece] at the turn of the fourth century BC, preserved today in the dialogues of [|Plato] and the Socratic works of [|Xenophon] - either dramatic or narrative - in which characters discuss moral and philosophical problems, illustrating a version of the [|Socratic method]. [|Socrates] is often the main character.