interpretation of the corpus is not universally accepted. The time that Plato began to write his works and the date of composition of his last work are not known and what adds to the complexity is that even the ancient sources do not know the order of the works or the dialogues. The complete list of the thirty-five Platonic dialogues that have been traditionally identified as authentic, as given in Diogenes Laërtius, is included below in alphabetical order. The authenticity of some of these dialogues has been questioned by some modern scholarship. First Alcibiades Second Alcibiades Apology Charmides Clitophon Cratylus Critias Crito Epinomis Euthydemus Euthyphro Gorgias Hipparchus Hippias Major Hippias Minor Ion Laches Laws Lysis Menexenus Meno Minos Parmenides Protagoras Phaedo Phaedrus Philebus Republic Rival Lovers Sophist Statesman Symposium Theaetetus Theages Timaeus Other ancient authors Authors of extant dialogues Athenaeus, author of Deipnosophistae Cicero, author of several dialogues, including De re publica, De finibus bonorum et malorum, Tusculanae Disputationes, De Natura Deorum, De Divinatione, De fato, Academica, and the now-lost Hortensius. Xenophon, author of several dialogues, including Apology, Memorabilia, Oeconomicus, and Symposium Authors whose dialogues are lost Simon the Shoemaker – According to Diogenes Laërtius he was the first author of a Socratic dialogue. Alexamenus of Teos – According to a fragment of Aristotle, he was the first author of a Socratic dialogue, 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. Aeschines of Sphettos Antisthenes Aristippus Aristotle Phaedo of Elis Euclid of Megara Favorinus Medieval and early modern dialogues Socratic dialogue remained a popular format for expressing arguments and drawing literary portraits of those who espouse them. Some of these dialogues employ Socrates as a character, but most simply employ the philosophical style similar to Plato while substituting a different character to lead the discussion. Boethius Boethius' most famous book The Consolation of Philosophy is a Socratic dialogue in which Lady Philosophy interrogates Boethius. Augustine Augustine's Confessions has been called a Socratic dialogue between Augustine the author and Augustine the narrator. Anselm of Canterbury Anselm's Cur Deus Homo is a Socratic dialogue between Anselm and a monk named Boso. Galileo Galilei Galilei's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems compares the Copernican model of the universe with the Aristotelian. Matteo Ricci Ricci's The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven (天主實義) is