"The Phaedrus" is a dialogue by Plato, representing a discussion between Plato's protagonist, Socrates, and his interlocutor Phaedrus. The work was presumably composed around 370 BCE, about the same time as Plato's "Republic" and "Symposium." The dialogue develops the topic of love, the art of rhetoric and how it should be practiced, metempsychosis (the Greek tradition of reincarnation), and erotic love.