I just finished Symposium by Plato, after reading a few of Plato's

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I just finished Symposium by Plato, after reading a few of Plato's other works.

I can't get over how talented a writer he was. I was blown away by how we wove philosophy into literature in such a delightful story. It was also interesting to learn some Greek history along the way (mainly about homosexuality in their culture), and I've really grown to like Socrates a lot, at least as a character if anything else.

Are there any other philosophers who were as good as Plato in merging philosophy with literature? Of course people like Dostoevsky get thrown into that sort of pile because their works have a heavy philosophical component, but I'm thinking of something further towards philosophy like the dialogues of Plato.