Abstract
In his philosophical dialogues, Plutarque confers a considerable place to the narrative: not only he makes of it an exemplary illustration of the philosophical thought (in Eroticos, the fiction of loving adventure is in accordance with the theoretical developments on love and marriage) but he crosses also the narrative texture with the theoretical developments, the dialogue being contemporary of the related events and partially aroused by them. The love story of the Eroticos has the same structure as the beginning of the contemporary love novels, and also presents numerous echos with them concerning the definition of the actantial roles of the characters; his main character is a passionate, excessive and paradoxical woman just like the heroines of Chariton and Xenophon of Ephesus, but to such an extent that it knocks down the conventional stereotypes of the novel because she is the erastes of the couple, and so an adequate exemplum in the genre of philosophical dialogue about love.
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